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The Canadian Metric System

The Canadian Metric System
A tape measure in both inches and centimeters. Kat Piper/The Epoch Times
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Commentary

In January 1970, with its “White Paper on Metric Conversion in Canada” the government of that country engaged in a radical measurement alteration. It started moving the entire nation from the imperial to the metric system. Those opposed to this alteration created a great hue and cry against it; there was much gnashing of teeth throughout the land.

Walter Block
Walter Block
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Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, at Loyola University New Orleans.
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