[jamesblonde]

Another aspect may be the influence of the States in Western Canada. Time is understandable to both Canadians/foreigners. Kilometres, not necessarily.

In Ireland, we went metric in the 1980s, but people still measured distances in miles until the road signs went fully metric about 15 years ago. Now (older) people measure distances in time, because they can't remember the distance in miles and can't grep kms.