The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 32, August 12, 2007, Article 15

CANADIAN OPINION POLL ON ELIMINATING THE CENT

Dick Johnson writes: "An enterprising Canadian newspaper, the London
Free Press -- under their Access to Information Act -- obtained and
published the fact last Sunday (August 5, 2007) that the Royal
Canadian Mint spent $110,515 for a public opinion poll whether or
not to abolish their penny coin. That's a lot of money to cover
your backside before a decision is made.

"A spokesman for the Mint revealed the study has been completed and
is under review before it is publicly released. Other countries such
as Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Finland have quit
making one-cent coins.
Winnipeg New Democrat MP Pat Martin is planning a private member's
bill to discontinue use of the penny. Prices would be rounded up
or down as they are in Australia.

"He didn't mince words in what he said: 'I wish they'd stop wasting
money on public opinion polls and hand-wringing and just stop making
the damn things.'

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently expressed a coin-collectors'
sentimental attachment to the penny."

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Dick adds: "In another Canadian news article the headline reads
'Ottawans differ on losing cents' I expected some support for keeping
the cent. However, the comments strongly are in favor of abolishing
the denomination as a circulating coin."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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