> Just like the USA. Metrication gets started, makes > some progress, then a > conservative leader (Mulroney, Reagan) comes in and > puts a stop to it, and > things stagnate. The difference, of course, is that > Canada got much farther > along.
Hmm. I go whacked back a few months ago for suggesting that conservatives were anti-metric. I can't say that the Canadian Liberal Party has done much for advancing metric in Canada either.
