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Originally Posted by worth
Re: $5 bill
Thought this was a good summation on the topic:
Kim Carter Taveroff: Col. Chris Hadfield will be the last Canadian in space for the foreseeable future because Canada has used up all it's space flight credits the CanadaArm earned it, and the Canadian Space Agency is not even a blip on the radar of the government. Boasting achievements of the past while failing to look towards the future gives not just the world, but Canadian citizens a false impression of Canada's role in the future of space exploration.
From here:
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Always someone looking for any opportunity to get on their soap box and turn something like this into a grave political issue (not you, worth). Our money has founding fathers of Confederation, The Queen and former Prime Ministers on it too; not quite looking "forward", as seems to be this woman's gripe and standard for what picture should be on the bills.
The $10 bill has a train on it, of a route that caters to private businesses CN and VIA...and displays a route that shuns one of the other major railways...where's the fake outcry over that?
These bills are more than the specific achievement of forging a northern train route, and the years and millions of dollars and hours of Canadian engineers it took to create a robotic arm that works in space and has helped advance the worldwide space agenda; they're both symbols for Canadian ingenuity and achievement, both at home and abroad, and that ideal is timeless....and that it why it's on the money (literally and figuratively).