Originally Posted by
CanadianConnection33
The short and confusing answer, as demosntrated by the other posts, is: both.
As I'm almost as young as gglave that's true as the introduction of the metric system started in earnest when I was in elementary school so an comfortable with some metric measurements such as celcius, kilometres (distance) or KPH (speed), litres, kilograms but still default to think of things such as height as imperial.
Most Canadians, especially those my age or older, I would venture would be more comfortable saying they are 6 ft tall and not 1.83 metres.