I was listening to "As It Happens" from the CBC last night. A French Canadian marine biologist was being interviewed about a whale constrained by a crab pot that they were trying to free.
When asked how big the crab pot was, he unreservedly used "feet" instead of "meters". :-( After all these years of metrication and even with the influence of the metric used in French TV shows, magazines, etc. which abound in Quebec, this guys still used "feet". Maybe he was translating from "meters" since he was on the English language radio network, but it still is a sad reminder of the bad influence of the USA on Canada when it comes to metric usage. Ezra
