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Dear Editor:

How much longer do we
have to read stories as the one
by Bob Hunter on ‘Metric
Nazism’? North Shore News,

Jan. 4 1985, First of all } miss °

completely the point what
metrification has to do with
nazism.

The conversion to the
metric system was decided by
the canadian. government to
allow Canada: to compete
with other. countries in the
world markets. The change-
over was very gradual and
everybody interested to learn
the system had every oppor-
tunity to do it.

On the contrary, the hun-
dreds of thousands of im-
migrants from countries with
‘the, metric. systemt. had to
adapt overnight to the
_English system and they did it
-without problems despite the
fact that many. of these pec-
‘ple had only grade school

education.

I am part of the growing
and well covered chorus of
people who use the metric
system daily and I find it a lot
simpler. It is strange that the
vojces against the metric
system come from people

who have very little to do.

with the system in their work.
i have not yet met anybody
who had a chance to work in
both systems and did not
recognize that the metric

system is simpler and easier.

to use.
Bob Hunter still talks
about a pro-metric minority.
I'am convinced that country-
wide the majority of Cana-
dians has realized that the
world with exception of the
U.S. works in metric and we
better learn to use the system
if we want to stay competitive
in world markeis.
Fred Dvorak
West Vancouver

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