YOU SAY – The metric dilemma: Give us an inch, we’ll take a kilometre
Some comments on our Facebook page about the editorial ‘Metric is a failure’:
Gregory Murray: I have no problems with metric but don’t see a problem when both are used. Why not use them together? Why is it an issue when one truck says 10 metres, and the other 30 feet? It’s the same distance and everyone knows that.
Inches or millimetres. Let’s decide which. (ArmchairMayor file photo)
William Douglas Hemmings: At 71 I understand the problem. But reverting to the Imperial system doesn’t make sense. Metric is the logical choice and I find the obsession of my fellow old goats with the dream of returning to the past ridiculous.
Tony Klancar: We half implemented metric instead of forcing a compete conversion. Letting grocery stores have imperial measure on produce and metric at the cash register is confusing.. just one sample of hundreds. Force all measurements to be metric on signs.. smaller imperial measures if necessary.. but let’s get on with it!
Loni Horsley: Your age is showing, Mr Rothenburger. Our biggest trade partners are stuck in the Imperial system, and until they change, we won’t completely convert. Or we will once all generations we’re educated in the metric way. And you’ll be long gone by then, sir.
Greg Dueck: How about let’s convert all the way. Trudeau senior is the one under who’s term this started and I think Jr. needs to finish it.
Myles Gregory: Metric is the logical measurement system used around the world. Imperial is just some nonsense that North America is desperately trying to hold on to.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
Why is it that we’re expected to be a bilingual nation (with one language increasing worldwide and the other becoming useless) but we can’t handle two measuring systems? As long as the U.S. is using Imperial measures, it behooves us to know it. As long as the rest of the world is using metric, it behooves us to know it.
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I think our use of both systems is a uniquely Canadian trait.
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