CONVERTING AMERICA TO THE METRIC SYSTEM
TITLE OR PURPOSE
To convert the United States of America from the Standard Issue Units to the Metric System.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED
The entire population of the U.S.. All of the U.S. major organizations and associations.
JUSTIFICATION
In 1970, Canada enacted the White Paper Metric Conversion Law to convert their country to the metric system. This law ensured that
Canada would change all their forms of units to be metric. Policies in their Parliament and Constitution changed before the law went into motion. These changes allowed the government to implement the conversion into the everyday lives of the Canadian people.
The year following after the law was enacted the government established the Preparatory Commission. This was considered the metric commission to organize and enforce the conversion in all sectors of the Canadian economy and spread the ideals of the metric system.
In 1973, over 100 committees with members from all national associations and major organizations were created. Each of these committees were set up with a plan of preparation for the sectors conversion.
The process of replacing the original imperial units with metric units involved all kinds of documents, processes, and measurements. the practical approaches to all these complications were created by the committees, each with strategies and policies conformed to suit their interests. Public awareness was an important area of consideration in order to ensure all of the general public understood and accepted the change to metric units. This entire development took at least ten years to complete.
PROPOSAL FOR ACTION
Similar to Canada's plan of action, the U.S. will implement committees in order to properly spread the ideals and processes through out the country. Starting a year after the proposal has been passed, the course of actions will be set into play. The year in between the approval of the proposal and initiation of the proposal will be necessary to prepare the steps that will need to be taken in order for the proposal to fully work.
By 2025, the U.S. should be fully accustomed to the metric system and its ideals. This will greatly improve the U.S. as a nation and its affiliation with other countries.