The image of an iconic Canadian woman will appear on the next issue of bank notes, Prime Minister Trudeau announced today.
“A Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the next series of bills expected in 2018,” Trudeau said.
“Today, on International Women’s Day, the Bank of Canada is taking the first step by launching public consultations to select an iconic Canadian woman to be featured on this new bill.”
How to nominate
From now until April 15, Canadians can visit the Bank of Canada's website to submit nominations for the woman they think should appear on the bill.
The nominees can be any Canadian woman, either by birth or naturalization, who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, achievement or distinction in any field, said a release from the central bank.
The nominees cannot be a fictional character and must have died prior to April 15, 1991.
B.C. MP Sheila Malcolmson, the NDP’s critic for Status of Women, said her party has been fighting to make Canadian currency reflective of the country’s diversity for years, and added that representation on bank notes is not the only issue that requires redress.
“It would be great to see a woman on a hundred dollar bill but it’d be even better if women didn’t only make $72 for every $100 men make for work of equal value. That’s why it’s time to close the wage gap,” Malcolmson said in an email.
Once people have visited the central bank’s nomination website and submitted their nomination, the bank is encouraging them to tweet out their choice using the hashtag #bankNOTEable.”
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