The back of a new British Twenty Pound Note showing Adam Smith’s head (kevinj/Getty Images)
by Dominic Pino
September 19, 2021
The British government has announced that U.K. businesses will once again be allowed to sell their products in traditional, British units of measurement, like pounds and ounces, instead of the metric system.
This move is a win for freedom-loving people everywhere, and the restoration of customary units should be a cause for jubilation in the streets.
The British government has announced that U.K. businesses will once again be allowed to sell their products in traditional, British units of measurement, like pounds and ounces, instead of the metric system.
This move is a win for freedom-loving people everywhere, and the restoration of customary units should be a cause for jubilation in the streets.
Just like that, with the strokes of a few pens in Paris, centuries of history began to be erased. The French Revolution may have been over, but the mindset of the revolutionaries lived on. The French Revolution was a time when men were, in the words of Edmund Burke, “pull[ing] down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.” The top-down imposition of the metric system did just that by erasing customary units.
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Canada needs to return 100% to the Imperial measurements. It can get confusing when we jump back and forth. Some things in metric and some things in imperial. I am 65, and I remember the change back in the 1970’s and hated it back then, and still hate it. I am always having to convert it back and forth, and even then not everything was changed. We measure our room temperature in celius, but our ovens are in fahrenheit.
My car is great because I can do either one, just need to touch a button.
It was changed under papa Trudeau. Surprise, surprise.
the law that metric could be used legally in trade was snuck through in 1979 after PT had lied to many provincial governments that it was already law, when in fact it was not. Imperial has always been legal measerment although many do not realise that it is. As everything in this country was in imperial we have wasted millions of dollars and still do converter measures to french [metric]