Han Maenen wrote in USMA 16187 regarding the Progressive Conservative governmenrt and the Liberal government we now have:
>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 The Progresive Conservative government elected in the summer of 1984 showed no desire to completre Canada's metrication. The Liberal government that came to power in 1993 apparently thinks that pushing on with metrication would lose it more votes than it would gain. Pierre Elliott Trudeau is dead. In a letter dated July 27 Alan Johnson, President of Measurement Canada, wrote: "a moratorium on the enforcement of sections 338, 339 and 340 of the Weights and Measures Regulations has been in effect since 1983. "The poiicy of the Government of Canada has been to let the marketplace set the pace of conversion to metric units rather than force its use by regulation. The majority of Canadians appear to be satisfied with this arrangement." Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
