Metric Commission

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The Metric Commission, formally the Preparatory Commission for the Conversion to the Metric System was a Canadian government agency established by the federal government in 1971 to facilitate Canada's conversion to the Metric system from the Imperial system of weights and measures and to educate the public on the Metric system.

The agency was abolished on March 31, 1985[1] early in the mandate of a new Progressive Conservative government that came to office in the 1984 federal election. A number of Progressive Conservative Members of Parliament had been vocal in their opposition to the Metric system during the previous Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau.