> In my opinion the only real difference > between Canada and the States as far as metric is > concerned is that we have metric road signs and > metric weather.
I'd have to agree to some extent. But, I'd have to add that some other visual differences in Metric between Canada and the US also include: packaged products sold in supermarkets do have metric-only labelling, sometimes hard metric values and sometimes soft metric. Soft metric sizes usually result when the same size package is sold in the US at a hard US-customary size. So, for example, my kitchen holds a 2 litre carton of milk, a 3.78 litre container of orange juice, a 1 kg package of sugar, 350 g box of cerial, containers of milk, and a 398 mL can of peas (amongst other things). Dual metric-US customary labelling isn't against the law, but it's not common either. Also, Canada's metrication includes: gasoline is sold by the litre, motor oil is sold in one litre bottles, more and more, people are requesting deli meats in hard metric amounts, meats sold in stores normally list the mass on the package in metric only. So there's more metric than just the weather and the highways signs, although those two areas have been the ones that have had the largest penetration. > Until the States does something > about going metric i think Canada will stay where we > are. I'd have to agree with this. I'd love to see Canada eliminate the per pound pricing of meats and produce, or at least require that the per kilogram price be in larger print, rather than a very large per pound price followed by an almost invisible per kilogram price.
