In a message dated 2000-10-13 20:23:32 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> A plebicite would be a bad idea. I don't know of any country that has gone
> metric as the result of a popular vote. The average person is not
> interested in the subject, and prefers to stick with what he already knows.
> A country goes metric when its governing body decides what is good for the
> country.. If it acts to please the people the country will metricate onlyy
> in a fragmentary, disorganized way.
>
>
Unfortunately, that's exactly what this Congress is doing, on this and other
subjects, and has done for a long long time ...
(and what Mulroney did up north in the mid-1980's).
Carleton
