I agree. I know that the PC was anti-metric in order to catch votes and it also used the Gimli Glider incident for that aim. It would only be a good thing if the present government ended the Metric Moratorium,
Han Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:40 PM Subject: [USMA:16176] Re: 454 g is not metric. > Han wrote in USMA 16172: > > >In 'old' metric countries butter is sold in 250 and 500 g packs. > >As long as butter is sold in 454 g packs in Canada and other 'new metric' > >countries there will be no progress at all. It is simply the continuation of > >the old Imperial pack expressed in irrational metric. This is probably one > >big reason why people are opposed to SI. They could say '1 lb' in the past, > >now they have to say '454 g'. In the end soft metric is no metric. It is > >either proof of gross innumeracy or it is used to set up people against the > >metric system or to get back at metric users like in this example from last > >year: > > > The (Canadian) Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act was revised in 1977 to > require metric labelling of prepackaged food, but not to require hard > metric. That produced no public outcry because there was no apparent > change. As new products have been put on the market they have tended to be > in hard metric; again no protests. Butter is almost the only remaining > prepackaged food product in soft metric. Loose food is weighed in > kilograms at the check-out counter and has its kilogram price printed on > the cash register sales slip, even though the advertised and displayed > price is predominantly per pound. This unsatisfactory situation was the > fault of the Progressive Conservative gavernment that was elected in the > summer of 1984 > > Joseph B.Reid > 17 Glebe Road West > Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071 > >
