I am not sure it's fair to include Canada in the same basket. We don't use freedom degrees, we know that numbers should start with the most significant digits and I believe liability waivers have no value here as well.
Am curious: where does that not happen in the US?
(And in parts of Canada they say 4-20-10 to mean 90 :-)
It happens with dates and makes them unsortable.
To us French this is a word like others, it's not like we are calculating in our heads. Belgians have "septante" which is more logical but they do not calculate either.