Tony Sidaway wrote:
I do NOT remember any political "explosion" at all. Just apathy.
Things are slightly different in the UK, where Europeanization is a bit of a political football. Tell British drivers they must stick to a 50kph speed limit and there's liable to be a lot of political fallout, if not actual damage, concerning road crash statistics.
The difference between the Canadian and British experience on metrication is a bit like removing a band-aid. Do you pull it off quickly or slowly? The British started a few years before us, and are still experiencing pains over it. Most of the visible changes here were finished in less than a decade; the British have been at it for over 40 years, and without the need to do so under the shadow of the tail from a very imperial bald eagle.
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