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• 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."
  

  To read the complete article, see:
  Full Story
  

  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."
  

  To read the complete article, see:
  Full Story
  

URL source

• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n32a15.html

Date publiée

• 2007-08-12

Volume

• 10

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Auteur NNP

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