For the last 50-plus years, stakeholders in real estate and construction have refused the metric system, writes Bob Aaron. Toronto Star file photo By Bob Aaron Special to the Star ...

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It’s not as if Canadians hadn’t been prepared. There had been months of run-up to April 1, 1975, the day Canada would officially join much of the rest of the world in using the metric system.

A Preparatory Commission for the Conversion to the Metric System – the Metric Commission – was struck, with a staff of 90, to oversee and enforce the conversion.

“A lot of the literature out from the government to Canadians was in cartoons. They explained what it means, and it really worked. They embraced it like a game, a conversation piece,” Phillips said.

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The metric system was invented by atheists during the French Revolution to turn us into robots. That’s why the metric system works better with calculations but is less intuitive.

The system itself uses ten-day weeks, ten-hour days, and 100-minute hours which makes it more in line with the base-10 system common to the rest of the metric system.

Thirty years ago today the metric system was introduced into New Zealand says Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard. The Weights and Measures Amendment Act became law on the 14 December 1976.