Kitchener Fence by-law

[Pheidippides]

My drivers licence has my height and mass in metric.

The only reason we are “hewing” today is because we weren’t intolerant enough back after conversion and the evil units weren’t completely banished.

It makes me sick when I see my friend’s little kids saying feet and inches for stuff, and they’re being taught it in school because the teachers didn’t happen to adopt the change. A whole new generation is being brought up wrong.

It is amazing then that you are such a train buff given that everything rail related in this country is still in imperial. That must be quite the internal battle that rages! :-)

I think part of the problem is that our biggest trading partner refuses to convert to SI (as a result North America unfortunately stands out in this respect compared to the rest of the world).

We have made a concerted effort with our child that every book he reads/we read to hime, show he watches, question he asks, etc., that we respond and convert to SI units; it is amazing how ingrained the imperial system is and how often this comes up multiple times daily.

It must cost the economy millions per year in inefficiency and waste (and the occasional emergency airplane landing, and space probe). Complete American conversion to SI within 10 years should be a requirement of any new NAFTA!