Looking up the few events you mention gives me more information about Canada than I can count on from american media. Really quite a shame, I often dreamed of moving to Canada when I was younger, as I like cold weather and open spaces. We've all got a mess in our homelands and I know there's no easy escape now.

I had no idea that Canada was previously using imperial units. Thinking back on it, they really fed us a lot of pro-metric crap in school. Big strawmen arguments for grooming kids, "it's superior because of these things that aren't useful", "we're the only country not using metric so we're uncivilized". Surprised it hasn't gotten pushed harder here with how bad our education's getting with Common Core. They put it on our labels next to our normal units, but still can't even stick to the premise of metric's superiority by saying 1.5 grams (god forbid 15 decigrams) instead of 1,500 milligrams. Looking it up again, I see it's been rebranded as "International System of Units". I never really thought about the political angle of it previously.

[I had a bunch of other stuff written, but decided it was pointless rambling after rereading it. We've strayed so far from the original topic, haha. May as well call it here.]