Canadians are being warned to keep an eye out for counterfeit $100 polymer bills after seven imitation notes were discovered late last month in British Columbia.
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As The Bank of Canada prepares to unveil its new polymer bank notes this week, documents reveal some people consulted on the new designs found them too “cartoonish” and out-of-step with modern Canada.
The Bank of Canada considered celebrating gay marriages, black hockey players, and turban-wearing RCMP officers on its new plastic bank notes -- but eventually nixed them all in favour of the more traditional images of a train, a ship and a monument.
Thousands of vending machines still can't digest those plastic $20 bank notes the government released two months ago, with machine owners blaming the Bank of Canada for their problems.
Disclosing details of behind-the-scenes discussions about tales of melting banknotes could endanger national security or international relations, says Canada's central bank.
The Bank of Canada plans to unveil a polymer version of the $20 bill at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, marking yet another step in the nation’s eventual shift to plastic currency.
