Stages with metric target's are just a whole lot cooler.
Why try and please the antie's, hasn't helped any so far!
I agree it's cooler, but is it absolutely necessary? no. We do lots of things that look like we are pleasing anti's but that may not be the intent. Case in point: the suggestion to force mandatory reloads in big stages. Was this because IPSC is generally against magazines holding more than 10 rounds? No. It's because people want to force Open shooters to do a reload in a 31 round course of fire. It's not a coincidence that EVERY long course at World Shoot XV was 32 rounds. Other country's HAVE 30+1 capacity possible under IPSC rules.
As for pleasing the anti's, don't get me started on how the hunters and long gun owners tried to serve us up as a sacrificial lamb to try and avoid long gun registration. I was there in the early 1990's speaking at political forums, attending rallies and was disgusted by what I saw.
Canada has shown that you don’t need normal capacity magazines to have good IPSC matches. Maybe IPSC should ban magazines of more then 10 rounds. That would make use PC right. This would put everyone on a even footing for world shoot and shut up the people complaining about the new round of high cap production guns. This would be good right?
I don't want to shoot a good match, ( I definitely don't want to shoot a crappy match) but I want to shoot an AWESOME match. 10 round stages severely limit your options. 90% of the stages we shoot are "shoot 8....run run run (reload)...shoot 8...run run run (reload) shoot 8". Wheeee! that sounds like fun! Occasionally we get "shoot 4....run run reload run...shoot 10...run run reload run...shoot 8 run run reload run...shoot 10". I get hard thinking about how often we reload! Go shoot a World Shoot. Go shoot a good US match. You'll see how much more interesting it is to shoot with full capacity magazines. See my previous comment about capacity.
Maybe the decision to get rid of the metric target was to become PC. So what? It doesn't affect our game. If you think that changing the target is the beginning of a slippery slope that leads to the banning of all firearms, then you place a lot more political power on our organization than they deserve. Our organization is a SPORTING organization, not a political one. Whatever FIREARM RIGHTS organization you belong to is responsible for keeping your rights as a firearms owner. As a case in point, USPSA and the NRA in the USA are 2 different organizations. Decisions made by USPSA don't have any impact on what the NRA does or how the NRA is perceived.
one reason we need to be able to shoot metric targets in Canada is so that we can remain on competitive ground with the Americans for matches we shoot down there. they use them, and it would be a disadvantage to Canadian shooters who travel to matches down there, to not be able to see them occasionally in matches up here.
Every US match I go to, when people talk about stages, they mention the "Amoeba" (classic targets) targets, and bobbers. They hate them because they are HARDER. They are smaller, have less A zone, and don't have that handy upper panel that catches rounds that should have been a miss because people are just pulling the trigger. I know shooters up here that can shoot a stage and score "Alpha Mike" on just about every target they shoot at. Down there, they are doing really well on stages. Why? Because they are shooting faster than they should. The second round of their double tap is going OVER the target. The upper panel compensates for their shooting.
As for letting us be competitive...When I practiced for Nationals this year, I didn't put full targets at 10-12 yards because that's what I thought we'd be shooting at. I put partial targets with no shoots at 20. If you want to be competitive, you practice things that are harder than what you'll see.
I've shot in the US many, many times. By shooting up here with the classic target, you are actually preparing yourself better to shoot in the US than the local US shooters.
If you don't like the way our firearms laws end up in Canada, then move to the US. Don't blame IPSC for your woes, however. Canada's firearm woes rest solely with Canada and our own local political machine.
though the way you explained it its confusing 
