> Hello okay mighty chimp i will tell you how much imperial is still used in Canada. All building supplys are impirial only. Houses are measured in sq ft only. Grocery store flyers advertise in imperial with the metric prices in very small print maybe. You can not buy a metric cook book in Canada. When police give a discription of a person on the t v or radio it is in feet and inches only. If you want a metric only measureing tape you have to really go looking for one. Carpets are sold by the sq yd. Cars fuel use is still talked about in miles per gallon even though we haven't bought gas by the gallon in 25 years. Peoples weight is always talked about in lbs. You asked how Canadian drivers adappted to metric speeds that went over very easily, because all the speed and distance signs were changed at the same time. I think metric would have gone over a lot better if the changes were made like they were for the speed and distances. So to call Canada a metric country is a joke in my opinion. If there are any Canadians on this site who can tell me where metric is been used more in Canada i would really like to hear. Like i said in my last post i would love to see Canada go fully metric.
I agree that there is a lot more that Canada must do to go fully metric. At the same time there are also a few more instances where metric is very common in Canada, such as: Weather reports are nearly always 100% metric (temps in celsius, pressure in kPa, rainfall in mm, and snowfall in cm). Packaging of food products is usually in metric only. Sometimes in contains both metric and ifp. Although, I will add that very often it's a soft conversion over from ifp, especially if that same product is packaged for the US market. Dairy products are sold in hard metric sizes, as is motor oil and gasoline. The gas and water meters in most new homes are calibrated in metric. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but in Ontario, the deed for my house (built in 1998) defines the property size in metres. There's a lot more that needs to be done, but metric is also there. Stephen
