^It would be better to have the queen on the fivers only ^^
Sir Wilfrid Laurier is on the $5. Please note that the men on our banknotes are prominent past Prime Ministers. The only reason Pierre Trudeau isn't a candidate to be on the money is because he hasn't been dead long enough (has to be a minimum of 25 years). The current British monarch is, of course, an exception to the "25-years-dead" rule.
She's on the front of all our notes, with a scion of British history on the back. I (clearly foolishly) assumed that it would be similar across the pond.
She's also on all our coins and stamps, of course.
We do like some of the traditions, but they've been gradually changing. The Queen used to be on all the stamps. That's not the case anymore.
There was a controversy last year, regarding putting a Canadian woman on the money. The men who weren't in favor of this said, "Isn't the Queen a woman?" whereupon the sensible posters pointed out that the only reason she's on the money is because she's the monarch. When she dies, Charles will be on the money, and then William, and then George (assuming we still have physical currency 50 years from now).
I'm just looking at the latest book of stamps I bought, and the pictures on them are of various Canadian Heritage sites: Dinosaur Provincial Park in my province - a desert-like area with hoodoos, it's rich in dinosaur fossils; three places I'm not familiar with, out in Newfoundland and Quebec; and L'Anse-aux-Meadows, where the first North American Viking settlement was, over 1000 years ago.
Maybe we'll finally stop putting non-Canadians on our money instead
That will only happen if we sever ties with the British Monarchy. Some people are adamant that this happen after the Queen dies.
Nah, they'll just put him on the $2 bill.
We don't have $2 bills. We have $2 coins, known here as "toonies," and the Queen is on one side and the other side has a polar bear (some of them have three bears - no porridge, though).
