Neil Fraser is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 former civil servant who came to prominence for his crusade against the Metric

Si

Si, si, or SI may refer to :- Measurement, mathematics and science :* International System of Units , the modern international standard version of the metric system...

 system of weights and measures in the early 1980s, which resulted in him being sacked from his post in the Revenue Department in February 1982. To promote his campaign, he ran as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

 at the 1983 leadership convention

Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 1983

The 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on June 11, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada...

. He finished last, with only five votes.