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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not really, the system itself is clever but it's made for everyone, very simple to use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If they bother to understand it that is. Base 10 is so simple for metric don't know why we haven't adopted it everywhere, I say that knowing weight in pounds and height in feet / inches, cause who wants to convert everything? But still, would have been better to understand that way from school teachings and used Canada wide.