As a matter of fact, the Vancouver Board of Trade, which has done a considerable amount to draw the Canadian public's attention to the debt situation, has placed its debt clock to work out that if the debt, rounded off to $.5 billion, were converted to hundred dollar bills there would, believe it or not, be enough to cover the Trans-Canada highway from Vancouver to Ottawa.
Le Vancouver Board of Trade, qui a fait beaucoup pour attirer l'attention des Canadiens sur l'importance de la dette, a installé à Vancouver une horloge qui affiche la dette, arrondie au demi-milliard, ou 500 millions. Si cette dette était convertie en billets de cent dollars, il y en aurait suffisamment, croyez-le ou non, pour couvrir la Transcanadienne de Vancouver à Ottawa.