This is very good. The only thing that could have been added to his point, would be how our government at one point arbitrarily converted Canada to the Metric system, despite all our trade being with the USA, and everyone knowing the imperial system, and actually criminalizing use of the old system in commerce. Yes, you could go to jail for selling gas in gallons or milk in quarts until Joe Clark’s Freedom to Measure bill. But by then the damage had been done. Trudeau senior had managed to show us that our culture and history could be negated with the stroke of his commie pen. And that was the real purpose of imposing a foreign system of weights and measures that would cost us a fortune in term of dealing with US imports and exports.
Makes one think about bilingualism a little doesn’t it?
