The Exchange New Canadian $20 Bill Too Provocative for Some

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The bill features Queen Elizabeth II, who is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this year, on the front of the note. The back pays tribute to the sacrifices of Canadian men and women in military conflicts with an image of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. (Watch the Bank of Canada's video introducing the new bill and the significance of Vimy here.)

However, some people have called elements of the bill "pornographic," while others have noted a resemblance to the Twin Towers that used to stand in lower Manhattan.

The main reason for issuing a new $20 is to prevent counterfeiting threats, said the bank. The new polymer notes are also cheaper and have a smaller environmental footprint. (An image of the back of the $20 note is below.)

The bank hired a research firm to hold focus groups with Canadians to get their opinion on the new currency. They found that not only did most Canadians not know of the Vimy Memorial's existence, but that some of those surveyed said the monument reminded them of New York's World Trade Center that was attacked and destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, according to an internal report cited in a CTV article.

The memorial, in Vimy, France, commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge and honors those who fought and died in the WWI in France and have no known grave. One focus group respondent was critical of the banknote's war imagery given the "climate domestically and around the world" -- as well as Canada's reputation as a peacekeeper. Perhaps a symbol of peace would be better, the participant suggested, according to the report.

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^ Pornography is not always sexual.

por?nog?ra?phy

? ?[pawr-nog-ruh-fee]

noun

obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit.

ob?scene

? ?[uhb-seen]

adjective

1.

offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.

3.

abominable; disgusting; repulsive.

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Vimy Memorial looks beautiful and reminds me Isildur and Anarion statues from LOTR :p; i cant see anything 'pornographic' or 'provocative' and its Canada own business what they want put on their banknotes.

The World does not spins exclusively for USA.

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###### ... I love ###### ... ###### are awesome, why offended? ... why so prude? .. of for f's sake grow some backbone the note looks just fine ... I would rmeove the popies as the red does not compliment the color scheme ... seem to be out of place

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The 100 and 50s are already in circulation and look pretty good. In pictures they look cheap and visually distracting but consider the white section is semitransparent. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Series

That said, the current bills are less visually noisy and more elegant. Example, the current 20: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_twenty-dollar_bill

Either way, still better than plain American bills :p

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