I confirm what Louis Jourdan wrote in USMA 20263 about metrication in
Canada.  Metrication in Canada was started by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberal government in 1970.  It was halted by Conservative governments in
1980 and in 1984.  The present Liberal government of Jean Chr�tien is
neutral.

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>- in Canada metrication did progress under Liberal Trudeau and
>suffered severe setbacks under Conservative Mulroney.


Joseph B.Reid
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