Posted by Bruce from Can. on September 19, 2021 at 02:43:53 from (70.50.211.56):
In Reply to: Canada Question posted by GordyMN on September 18, 2021 at 19:15:01:
I am 60, and grew up with standard measure. The metric system was introduced when I was in grade 7, at age 11-12. Few things changed the first few years, but gradually the metric system was made mandatory legal measure for things. I started driving at 16 and bought gas at 49.9 cents/gallon in 1977. By 1979 gas was sold only by the litre, started out at ,26 cents per litre, and created a wonderful opportunity for the government of the day to raise the gas tax, because no one knew how much a litre was. They only knew the price of gas had more than doubled. Same jerk gave us the metric system as gave us the increased gas tax. Now , for reasons I cant understand, some folks thought it would be a great idea to let his son run the country off the rails for a few years. We will find out next week if he gets to keep his job
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