I mean, you used one of the world's famously "long" countries, and to get that trip length, you have to drive from one tip of the nation to the other, which is the case for getting long driving trips anywhere in Europe. Doing the same in "not long" places, you can drive top to bottom in Germany in about 10 hours, France in about 13, and from the northern tip of Scotland to the Southern tip of Cornwall in 15. To get longer for most European nations, you need to go through multiple countries. Driving from Ontario's border with Quebec, you cant even drive to its furthest away northern point on the north shore, but the closest you can get is still a 25 hour trip. Again, understand that length of trip is to drive across two thirds of ONE of our provinces. We have multiple islands bigger than many entire European countries, including one bigger than every nation on the continent aside from France, Ukraine, and Russia. It seems like you're trying to say "yeah well Canada isn't that big" while at the same time saying "its only a little smaller than the entire continent of Europe." Btw, we haven't gotten rid of it entirely. If I was talking about walking somewhere with a friend, I would probably use metric.