You probably mean ‘sell things outside of canada as well as other parts of the world’
On 31 Dec 2015, at 19:55, <j...@frewston.plus.com> <j...@frewston.plus.com> wrote: > I was living in Canada at the time, and served as an alternate on the > construction sector committee. I do remember rumours about Marchand wanting > to stop Canada's conversion in its tracks. But Trudeau stood firm - he had a > vision for Canada (a Canada that was not another USA), and metric conversion > was part of that. Trudeau did a lot of bad things in his time as Canadian PM, > but you cannot fault him for his vision of making Canada a great > international country. The sad part was when Mulroney became PM in 1984 (I > think that was the year), and dismantled everything about Canada's > metrication program, announcing that 'Canada was open for business' - i.e. we > can sell Canada out to the USA. Such a travesty. > > John F-L > > -----Original Message----- From: c...@traditio.com > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:23 PM > To: USMA List Server > Subject: [USMA 57] U.S. Metric Act Drove Canada to Metric, if Not U.S. > > I had never heard this story of how close Canada came to dumping metric. > Thank goodness Prime Minister Trudeau stood firm in 1976. Even Jimmy > Carter, unbeknownst to him, saved metric in Canada if not in the U.S. > Would that we had had a President as foresightful and courageous as > Trudeau! > > Martin Morrison, "Metric Today" Columnist > > > ============ > From: Kamloops This Week > www.kamloopsthisweek.com/where-are-they-now-len-marchand-still-watching-political-scene/ > > "By 1976, Marchand was in cabinet as Minister of State for Small Business > and handed the task of bringing the metric system to Canada. > > "I was really getting a lot of heat about metric, Marchand says. So, I > said to Pierre [Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada], Give me the word and I > can dismantle it. But, he said, We are a trading nation and one of the > last great nations in the world not going metric. > > "At one time, Marchand says, he had a letter from then-U.S. president > Jimmy Carter confirming that country would also go metric." > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
