Beet en er ee ee 18 chee Metric vs JACK LOUCKS Mayor, North Van City “ft think they should not have provided the choice. | think politically, to appease some people, they should have stayed with metric. As long as they waffle on the metrification program, the more they encourage people to resist the changes that I feel are _ Necessary. ‘think there, are two basic: advantages” to the i metric: system. Once it's leartied, the metric system -is easier to: use. Units are “basically “" in ‘tens o¢ powers of ten. And two, Canada‘ is™ an exporting nation and : system is used by the ma- jority of nations. in: the world. . “E don't: think it (the ‘combination of systems} will result in‘mass ‘confu- Sion’ ‘for the. consumer, ° : a nk i -but .. barrassing. omission: wo) from"Sunday’s “articléd 2 on” the idog: grooming scene... on the.” North Shore. : ; Missing ‘ft m ‘thé list.of . businesses: tha cater to ‘pet $: “Cove: Clippers, a operated : by, Suzaane Gib- the: ‘metric ‘tensive -in Palm Springs: ‘returning Groom for three more years. - used to the metric system. - .U think we’re in sort/of a change-over period ; and think we've gone too far down the road in the Metric system for the government to take such My drastic action and change whenever you. have a change-over, you're going to have. difficulty . with “ people who don’t. fully understand the system and perhaps aren’t even Pprepared* to make the change. - “¥ don't think Canada will eventually return to the ¢ imperial system, but I~ _ bins, opened on January 14 of this year and since then © Gibbons says business has . “been steady.’ Gibbins opened Deep — Cove’s only salon after, ex- ‘experience in’ the business, apprenticing . with Mrs. Village Groom beginning. in 1975, operated a: grooming centre ‘before to The ” Vilage “CAPILANO HOME PARK ve Now’ reserving: ‘Space in: ‘exclusive new manufactured homes extension: - - © A beautiful adult-only, or retirement. Sharon Dibley of The . things again. “I think the important ‘thing to realize is that Canada made a cummit- ment to go into the metric system and it was a wise decision. Also, they have taken many steps to achieve it. But one pro- blem is that they may have prolonged the change-over for too many years, and this has allow- ed for people who don’t want change to resist it. ‘“*The government’s been working on the met- ric system for several years now. Perhaps we . should have been: a tittle more drastic in the time frame. for implementing it. Otherwise you just build up the people’s hopes that don’t want it changed from the im- perial system in the first ‘place.”’ ‘A* BLOOD | donor clinic sponsored by the Canadian ~ Ri Cross will be held in the BCT Rail building Monday... “ane session, open to members of the public, will be held in the lobby of the BCL Rail building — at 221 . Espla - The Cove Clippers: is ‘the ; second business for _Gibbins who also, for: two years, . CHUCK COOK MP, North Vancouver- Burnaby “Yes, they should have provided a choice, This is a democracy and there’s a tremendous number of people who really want to see the imperial scale us- ed. There has: been a tremendous demand on the country over the ar- bitary nature and the almost Orwellian nature of the imposition of met- ric. Seventy per cent of our trade is with the U.S. They use the ‘imperial scale. To make exporters use metric is ridiculous. Any exporter should have the choice of which scale to use depending on where they export. ‘The biggest advantage _ is that now the people do have their choice. The other advantage is that it pertains to those people over 40 who have. nevér been trained in metric. The’ fact is, one of the reasons for using metric Canadian Red Cross Public Relations official Rick O'Brien told the North Shore News the first clinic held at B.C. Rail in Febru- ary, 1984, attracted a total of 169 persons, ‘despite. the fact the Red Cross had only ~: established a quota of 100. - Friday, February 22, 1985 - North Shore News mperial in relation to gasoline is that a litre of gas is con- siderably less than a y, ernment =:to “hide escalation of~' gas prices because it.’ was” a’ much smaller amount. “The new system will - result in no, more confu- : sion than has resulted in: the imposition of metric.” The second . Clinic, last August,’ 150. Monday’s ‘clinic has a projected quota of 155 peo- ple. : O'Brien said there. will be. three clinics held next week, -- including one at..UBC, wit held: attracted 142: people out:.of-'a quota of: The older, consumér grew up under one system but: auyone under 20 has no difficuly with metric. | ‘can’ eventually see everything © going - metric “ona much slower basis. “But quite frankly, J wish broadcasters. would go back and give- temperatures in “both: J measurements. Tm still: confused. “The. new system was brought in because it was n-election promise for ‘one = thing. And it’s always been part’ ‘of:-the. Conservative policy,tt ger. away from an imposed’ : metric system... The. Con--” servatives basically don’t believe in imposing things on. people. where’ unneces- cls was’ one ‘of the hye ° = ‘there were about 39. of ‘us —- who put up _ the money; ‘for the gas ‘station outside of Ottawa to stay’-on’ the -.imperial . system. But “the gov- “ernment never ‘took us up “on it.”? oo . s BC Rail holds blood é. a quota of 165, and another at the. Red Cross: clinic on Oak Street. : “With: a - total ‘quota of -445,° the.'B.C. ‘Rail clinic is ‘being expected ‘to’ account :\for:.one-thitd: ofthe blood tigre embeses the Capilano | "DISPLAY: HOME. OPEN 11 :00 AM till 4:00. P.M. ‘Monday’ » through: Saturday -. Call 980- 8411 during display hours 922-9191 666 Burrard St, Van. - 980-5714 2156 W. 41st. 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