Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press;
Many images proposed at the start of the process did not make the cut. Rejected were illustrations of a gay marriage, an RCMP officer wearing a turban, and “hockey with a twist … with a black player.”
The reasons for early rejection are not clear in the heavily censored documents, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
h/t Richard E
Yeah, what’s the matter. You tryin’ to tell me they couldn’t find a picture of a gay Sikh in a wheelchair marrying a black mountie wearing a Montreal Canadiens sweater?
Bias and discrimination, I tell ya!
This is one of those RARE occasions when a government institution actually used some common sense!
btw, how would anyone be able to tell the person on the $3 bill was gay? Was the suggested image one of those guys from a “pride” parade?
aww c’mon, we already got a queen on there!
Actually dmorris there were $3 bills issued in Canada in the early 19th century by various provinces and sometimes cities. If you find one I’ll pay you $9 for it. That’s three times the face value! There was even a Canadian 25cent note shortly after confederation.
Jamie, would the Sikh be wearing a Maple Leafs jersey too?
Actually what’s on a $100 bill doesn’t really matter to most people, they will hardly ever see one.
What is really telling though is that the mentality there is such that they would actually consider making political statements on the realm’s coinage.
“What is really telling though is that the mentality there is such that they would actually consider making political statements on the realm’s coinage.”
Nothing new in that, countries have been doing this since notes and coins were first invented.
Still, I guess the big difference is that in the past the choices they made had some gumption to them. No such luck with the sort of weeny-minded worldview so popular among the politicos these days.
Here are a few of my suggestions:
1. Canadian infantrymen destroying a Taliban position.
2. If there must be a Sikh mountie, how about a very, very large turbanned constable dragging two drunks out of a Prince George bar on a Friday night?
3. Canadian infantrymen beating back hordes of Red Chinese at Kapyong.
4. Love him or hate him, but when the time comes for Jean Chrétien to embellish our notes, let’s hope they include his greatest moment ever: giving that perennial loser Bill Clennett a Shawinigan handshake.
5. Bob and Doug McKenzie. Or heck, just a picture of an old stubbie.
6. Canadian infantrymen overrunning Juno Beach.
7. Don Cherry. Or his dog. Or both. Any of Don’s suit patterns would frustrate forgers with its design complexities!
8. Canadian infantrymen seizing Vimy Ridge.
9. Not Trudeau himself, but Martin Short as Trudeau.
Obviously this scribbler believes Canada (and it’s national institutions) are defined by the hobby horses of a small social engineering clique.
Not surprising because the Journo-list consider themselves part of the social engineering continuum. News is unimportant it’s about how information can be employed to promote a political agenda (IE the left side of the culture war). In this perverse musing, the author is insinuating that the Harper conservative government is – wait for it – “Racist, homomophobic and non-“progessive”. Even though it is the mint which makes these decisions, the social engineers in the media can’t pass up an opportunity to promote their political agenda by distorting the news.
It’s obvious, it’s repulsive, and it’s why people are abandoning the MSM for alternative media.
Definition of nix: put an end to, cancel.
Canadian Press Headline: “Gays, blacks nixed…”
Love the end of the “news” report:
Makes no dif what is on the money as it is worth less every day!
Ken (Kulak) 9:40 AM nailed the central issue precisely.
Canadian Tire money will appear more like a conservative, stable and solid currency than what the Bank issues if they keep using trendy images, it’s fiat money, it’s only worth what people believe it to be worth, so let’s stick with the Queen and grim portraits of former PM’s.
I’m surprised the “focus” group didn’t want a picture of Obama on there as well.
They should put a gay marriage scene on the 3-dollar bill.
Gives, ah, new currency to an old phrase.
Al,I’ll keep my eyes open at flea markets for the $3 bill,and will mention to my MP that we should have a new version of said bill with the image of Svend Robinson on it!
I guess that explains why they didn’t take my suggestion for a gay hockey player in a turban.
What about the Majestic MOOSE?…
Maybe a gay moose, gnawing on a hockey stick…
I think the Khadr family would be a lovely statement!
They need to get closer to reality. A picture of taxpayers shoveling their hard earned money into the government machine, with confetti coming out the back, would tell it all.
What was wrong with the grain elevator beside a wheat field in Southern Saskatchewan?? I guess everything was OK until you took a peek “in the back of the elevator.” There was a joke in rural Saskatchewan, back in the 60’s when then Minister of Justice Pierre Trudeau was working hard to legalize homosexuality.
Two boys were parked behind an elevator and going at it in the back seat of a 57 Dodge when a mountie snuck up from behind and shot his flashlight in the rear window. He opened the door, told the boys to dress up, handcuffed them and took them to the station.
Because the laws on homosexuality were changing quickly, the young mountie thought it best to phone the crown attorney for advice. He explained the situation to the elderly lawyer who had been awakened by the call. “With the new laws coming out, I don’t know what to charge them with. Hell, why don’t you just charge them with arson.”
That was 1969.
And on the 8th day God Made A Liberal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzMPlQb2G4
I was watching CPAC today Senate Committee on the Bill to remove U/I Benefits from convicted felons when they are released from jail. I never heard such unbalanced Liberal whining and crying in my life.
Pictures on Canadian currency should be limited to some of our abundant and beautiful natural scenes and wildlife.
Time to drop the Queen too.
Agree totally N of 60. There are plenty of iconic natural images of Canada that could be used on the front and back of the bills.
Can anyone believe that Communist Press wasted their money on a FOI request for the information used in this story. Of course they likely haven’t made a similar request to see how McGuinty cost Ontario taxpayers hundreds of millions by scrapping to gas plants or the millions he’s screwed us out of over wind power.
What a pathetic news organization. Just like the CBC.
“Time to drop the Queen too.”
Sure, and let’s replace her with a true Canadian female icon:
Libby Davis
Maude Barlow
Margaret Trudeau
Heh, ol’ Lizzie don’t seem so bad after all, eh?
One wonders what part of
“Pictures on Canadian currency should be limited to some of our abundant and beautiful natural scenes and wildlife. ”
was so difficult for Jamie MacMaster to comprehend?
Why were these ideas even entertained? When one thinks of Canada, does one think of wind turbine eyesores and not the Rockies?
Hey, I’m in agreement with you….relax.