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Dirty money: is canada's new $20 bill 'pornographic'? by wwy yrj
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Dirty money: is canada's new $20 bill 'pornographic'? by WWY YRJ
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| Article Posted: 11/09/2012 |
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What do you get when you put topless women and an image that lookslike the Twin Towers on a Canadian $20 dollar bill? A lot ofcontroversy. The newly redesigned $20 bill was unveiled by the Bank of Canada inOttawa last week, according to the Daily Mail . The revamped bill — the most counterfeited Canadian tenderin circulation — is manufactured from a high-tech polymer andboasts a difficult-to-copy design that's supposed to make itmuch more difficult to produce. If only someone had taken a closer look at what the new designactually was. While it features a portrait of Queen ElizabethII (Canada is a commonwealth country, don't forget), italso carries a reproduction of the National Vimy Memorial.
There are a couple problems here: for one thing, the VimyMemorial, created to honor Canadian servicemembers who lost theirlives during World War I, is not the most recognizable of national symbols. "I've never seen this monument,ever," said one Vancouver participant in a Bank of Canada focus group on the bill. For another, it also happens to be in France: the memorial rises120 feet over the Douai Plain, near the battlefields where morethan 7,000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives. But the biggest problem may be that the Vimy'sdouble-columned design, draped with semi-clad classical figures,manages to evoke both the ill-fated Twin Towers of New York Cityand softcore porn.
"When you quickly glance at it, and if Ididn't know any better, it looks like the Twin Towers,"one focus group participant said, according to documents fromToronto market research firm The Strategic Council obtained by Canadian broadcaster CTV News . Critics called special attention to the figures drapedrevealingly across the top of the monument, meant to representJustice and Peace. "It's too pornographic," acash handler in Toronto told researchers. "What is the womanon the top holding?" Many people were also critical of the war and military theme of thebill. "Given the climate domestically and around the world, Iwonder if war is too much of a statement.
. . . Canada used to havethe label of peacekeeper," a focus group participant fromHalifax said to CTV. This isn't the first time Canada's currency has evokedcontroversy.
Similar focus groups were conducted for the polymerversions of the redesigned $100 and $50 bills that are already inuse. Many people in the focus group mistook the DNA strand featuredon the $100 bill for a sex toy. Others thought the see-throughwindows on the bills resembled the contours of a woman'sbody. Who knew money notes could be so risque? The $20 notes will go into circulation in November. New $5 and $10bills will be issued by the end of 2013, according to the Bank ofCanada.
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