AskACanadian

It might be cool to have separate posts to discuss each of these in more detail. Building off of some of these ideas:

Get rid of mm/dd/yyyy

I almost always use yyyy-mm-dd because it's the least confusing, while also sorting digital files nicely. I'd prefer if that became the default.

Switch to ISO A4 paper size.

I'm curious what this process would be like. For most end users, there is little difference between receiving a piece of paper that is letter size vs A4. I would use it myself in my printer for anything I'd need to print out. Is it a matter of advocating for stores and suppliers to carry it?

Switch to the UK keyboard layout.

I'd love to hear some discussion on this one, but I'm also worried that people will have very strong feelings about what layout will be best. There are a lot of alternate layouts out there 😄

Switch the roads to left side driving.

This one I'm not sure about since a lot of other allies drive on the right side too, including a number of vehicle exporters. This would provide little benefit to us other than to spite the US.

Establish independent vehicle testing.

I would expand this to all kinds of certifications and testing, and tie it to a mutual agreement with the EU. We could benefit from the stronger protections established in the EU, while cutting down on repeat work.

Use metric for colloquial measurements.

Maybe we can share some infographics around from time to time to help people learn their heights and weights in metric.

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I don't have much else to add for the rest :)