Canada

A big issue is how connected certain trades are to the USA. A lot of our trades education or consumer products rely on their imperial system. Really wish the USA would stop prerending it is special and join the civilized world of logical units.

Basically everything mandated by the government is Metric, so any official labeling (like on roads or foods) and it's what we are taught in school. But we are in a transitionary phase in terms of whats passed on through family and social interactions. And that period is extended by trade with the US leading to lots of things still having both imperial and metric measurements, or in the case of weather, I grew up on the border listening to Detroit news.

A big reason is, at least for me, I'm one generation removed from someone who lived when Canada was on Imperial. It'll take a few generations to get rid of it. You can even see it in the replies here, as people who are certainly younger than me are talking about how they're using metric exclusively for things that I still swap between.

That's the ONLY reason. I'm quite fond of metric.

People provide many excuses, but the reason there has been no further improvement is Canada stop it's metrification program in 1985.

So what we successful converted in 15 years of metrification remains metric, the remainder is unlikely to change, and Imperial units are still taught.

This varies by province, due to the education component. For example, Québec is more metric than most.

Inertia and things that are really, really inconvenient otherwise. Here in Saskatchewan, the "grid" roads serving rural Saskatchewan are actually laid out in a 1 mile by 1 mile grid, enclosing 1 section of land (640 acres). Even equipment without odometers can follow directions like "4 miles north and 3 miles west" by simply counting intersections.

By distance, Saskatchewan has approximately 1/3 of all the roads in Canada despite having only about 1/35 the population. Miles are not going anywhere, even if everyone gives total distance travelled and highway distances in kilometres (or approximate travel times).

This is next level national fck up. 🤣

After 3y in UK I understood imperial system but I still hate it. When I watch a video when they mention imperial system I just don't bother to finish it.

It's not hard for us it's just what we're used to.