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Victoria man pushes for Canada to go fully metric (cheknews.ca)
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[–] 1 point 21 hours ago (14 children)

Who is still using the imperial system in Canada?

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  • [–] 6 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

    Trades, architecture, engineers, railways, weights and measures people from industry Canada, aviation, roadwork, steelmills, steelworkers, coffeeshops, farmers, clothing, textiles, restaurants, recipes, and many more!

    I suppose you don't live in Canada? Imperial is everywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

    Trades - except electricians apparently

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    Try to buy wire in mm2 and watch the guy at the electrical supply counter look at you like you have 3 heads.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Tried to get an M5 bolt for my bicycle at a Canadian Tire once and the guy all but used the f-slur at me

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  • [–] 1 point 24 minutes ago

    My local Canadian Tire has a nice big set of drawers labelled with a huge variety of metric and imperial fasteners - but it's never stocked and if the one you want does happen to be there, it will not be in the correct place.

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