To my Canadian Readers: Do you like the metric system or the imperial better.?

Question

Do you find metric easier to understand or the imperial system. I grew up with the imperial, still use it to cook with and have no idea what centimeters are to inches. I still convert.
I relate much better to farenheit, pounds & ounces, yards and feet . What's your opinion.

Answer 1

Imperial....I ppity the fool that likes metric

Answer 2

I am on board with answer #2. Raised on both - bilingual in BOTH measurement systems. The older I get though the more I think in metric. I used to be able to estimate in miles, but can't anymore. Totally switched over to km.

I teach my kids both, so that when they travel to U.S. or read an American magazine article or hear measurements on T.V. programs they understand, roughly, what a foot is, a quart etc.

It is good though, when you are speaking to an immigrant living in Canada that - when you say "4 litres" they know what you mean. And telling them how far one city is from the next, you provide it in km and you are both on the same page. More people in the world understand metric than the imperial system!! And it makes things a whole lot simplier for trade, measuring jet fuel etc.

An aside: I own a business and import goods from the U.S. and the boxes are always labeled in lbs. Recently, I noticed their labels started to say kilograms (are some U.S. warehouses making the switch ???)

Answer 3

In 1907, Canada signed the Meter Convention (Convention du Mètre), a diplomatic treaty.
In 1960, countries members of the Meter Convention adopted the name International System of Units (SI) for the recommended practical system of units of measurement, which was based on the metric system.
In other words, Canada has adopted the SI so that it´s industry and society can be in sync with the rest of the world.

Answer 4

personally, I prefer imperial because I was raised with it and had it memorized. My children were raised with metric and they are totally used to and understand metric and cannot relate to my using imperial. I use metric because it is what most people understand. it is the future. thank you

Answer 5

I also spent my childhood with fahrenheit, feet, miles, gallons and so on. I find the metric system a lot easier to understand because it uses base 10 mathematics which is quite simple to grasp.
Practice, practice, practice...

Answer 6

I can do both due to the fact that it changed over while I was learning it in school say around grade 5 for me... so ... I do like imperial better because it just seems to make more sense to me.
80 degrees vs. approximately 27 celcius.. it just seems weird but I can do both thankfully.

:-)