Mike Joy in USMA 21657 reported that:

>The point is, Nat, that there must be a heck of a lot of voters in the US that
>either support the SI system or at least it won't affect their votes if SI was
>brought in.
>
>Same as here - if everyone was dead against it, it would never have been
>brought
>in.
>
>Mike
>Perth, Australia



In Canada there was no organized opposition to metrication until 10 years
after the start of the metric conversion program.  It occured when the
conversion of retail food scales started.  People were afraid that they
would have to ask for loose food in kilograms while they neither knew nor
cared what a kilogram is.

Joseph B.Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto  M5P 1C8             Tel. 416 486-6071

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