Why does Canada use the metric system?

I was in school when we converted from imperial to metric. It was the law. It was brought in by a forward thinking liberal government and then mostly integrated into Canadian life. read more

Canada needs no other reason to use the metric system other than the fact that metric system is what the world uses. The United States probably wastes a lot of time and effort when converting standards between the two measurement systems, and when training people for international work. read more

Metrication in Canada began in 1970 and while Canada has converted to the metric system for many purposes, there is still significant use of non-metric units and standards in many sectors of the Canadian economy. read more

Officially, Canada is on the metric system, and government forms, doctors and the military will never use imperial (English) units. In practice, however, Canadians use a random selection of metric and imperial units like the British. read more