And I would bet that 99.9% of the people that look at a US 100 dollar bill are more interested in what it can buy them and have no thought at all about Ben's Ideology.
Some Canadian politicians are on a massive guilt trip nowadays over the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's long list of requirements to make things up to the aboriginal people for the things done to them over the centuries and decades.
A group of Ontario teachers freaked out when they realized that Sir John A. Macdonald (our first Prime Minister, back in 1867) was one of the people who figured that assimilating the natives into European/white Canadian culture would be a good thing, and so he and other politicians figured the residential schools would be a great way to do it (take native kids from their parents, stick them in a school in the middle of nowhere that was run either by the Catholic or Protestant church, and assimilate them by literally beating their culture out of them). Of course the residential schools were a bad thing, but now these teachers decided it was shameful to have any schools in Ontario named after Sir John A. Macdonald, and those schools should be renamed.
So apparently, taken to its logical conclusion, we need to rename absolutely EVERYTHING that has Macdonald's name on it, and get his picture off the $10 bill.
I really don't think that's going to happen. I could see replacing King on the $50 or Borden on the $100, or even Laurier on the $5 since they were PMs a long time ago and nobody really remembers them (okay, Laurier, but there's nobody alive now who remembers him). But our first Prime Minister? No. As for the $20, the Queen (and by definition any of the monarchs) is on that one, and that will not change.
This whole reconciliation thing is getting ridiculous. Yes, they deserve compensation for the residential schools. Some buildings have been renamed, and a plaque has been removed. Erasing our first PM is going too far, and RENAMING CALGARY is
definitely going too far.