Canadian Currency and Progressive Issues

: A petition Forster launched on Change.org in 2013 garnered more than 73,000 signatures to bring women back to Canadian currency, according to Huffington Post Canada. The lack of diversity on our money is hardly fitting for a country that likes to think of itself as a leader on progressive issues. Forster has been campaigning since a picture of the Famous Five was removed from the $50 bill in 2011, replaced with the arctic icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, a ship named after a white male explorer. Even the U.S. is getting ahead, announcing last year its upcoming redesigned $10 bill will feature an iconic American woman, to be chosen by the public. How can one woman represent all Canadian women Australia achieved gender parity on its currency featuring both a man and a woman, one on each side, on every monetary denomination except one. Now that this oversight is finally being rectified, our question is: why just one It smacks of tokenism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.