Nope it was your idol PET trying to diversify Canada's market place . Funny we changed our measuring system to be more in line with European markets , but kept trading with America .
Certainly some of it's true, but not for that reason. Science is metric all over the planet and has been for a long time because it's a far simpler system to use when you're dealing with other complex and difficult ideas. I was in secondary school long before Canada officially started using the metric system, but even then, all the weights and measures used in the science classes were metric units. That was my first exposure to the metric system, at about age 14, and I don't recall having any difficulty with it. I routinely use both metric and Imperial units in various things I do, it's not hard to switch back and forth. Home renovations, pretty much have to think in Imperial units because lumber and wall panels and other such materials are still specified in Imperial units, and my house was built using them too, the structural timbers in the walls are 16" on centre and the walls are 8' tall. But working with a lathe, turning pens and bowls and pepper grinders and assorted other round things, I find it easier to be accurate if I think in metric units.
The meter is close to a cubit, very close. Metric clocks? And calendars? The meter originally was based on what was thought to be fixed parrameters, of course we now know everything moves according to charge and capacity, the planet is adjustable, both dimension and mass.
