Well, other folks have commented on this, but I got to see first-hand how Canadians still often use Imperial in everyday conversation.
Saw a show tonight about a guy (Dave) trying new methods of interacting on foot and unarmed with wild lions. Before heading off to South Africa to do his real work, he spent some time at the Toronto zoo. The zoo keeper he met there, who I presume is Canadian, talked to him freely in yards about how close he could get in the wild to a male lion guarding his females. I think Dave is American, so maybe the Canadian fellow was simply translating meters to yards for Dave's sake because he assumed Dave would have no clue what the distance in meters would mean. When I saw in the show that Dave was in Toronto, I was kind of hoping to hear some SI from the Canadians, because I think the more exposure Americans have to English-speaking people using SI the better it is to acclimate us to eventual transition in the USA to SI. So, I'm always disappointed when shows with Canadians, Brits, Aussies, etc. find a way to use Imperial instead. Ezra
