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im not overly concerned about whos on the money. i just wish i had a rich girlfriend.The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed
Author of the article:Christina Blizzard
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 7 Comments
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo.
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
It’s hard to imagine a $20 Canadian bill without Queen Elizabeth II’s face smiling out at us.
We’ll have to get used to it.
It’s customary, as soon as one monarch dies, for the Royal Canadian Mint to begin replacing the currency, both coins and paper money, with the new one. The banknotes won’t be replaced overnight, but gradually phased out of circulation as new ones with Charles’ image replace them.
The same will happen with stamps, although there’s already a republican move afoot to replace the monarch on both banknotes and stamps, according to a Toronto Sun article.
“The stamps and coins of an independent nation on the eve of its 150th anniversary should celebrate its own people and achievements, not those living in the palaces of a foreign nation,” the Sun quoted Wayne Adam, of Canada’s Republic Now, as saying in 2016.
The group said the country’s current prime minister is a better candidate than the Queen, who appears on the obverse of most Canadian coins. She always faces right on coins. Charles will face left, honouring a tradition that goes back to the time of Charles II. Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed. The same doesn’t happen with stamps.
The Queen only appears on the $20 bill, but in the past, Mint officials discussed dropping the monarch altogether from our money, according to one report. In 2016, Reuters reported that the Mint had pondered a plan to get rid of Charles on banknotes when the Queen died.
In the documents, central bank staff working on the redesign of the 2012 $20 bill wrote that depicting the reigning monarch was “a matter of tradition,” and suggested it could be discontinued.
“In the event the Queen dies or abdicates before the new notes are issued, a decision will need to be taken as to whether to continue this tradition or to replace the image” with some other portrait subject, a 2008 policy advice paper read.
Staff were concerned about the increased costs and delays of reworking designs if the monarch changed before the design process was done, documents obtained by Reuters under freedom of information legislation showed.
The issue of Elizabeth’s potential death came up several times at the Bank of Canada between 2007 and 2015, the documents showed.
What is shocking about that revelation is that it appears Mint officials were pushing ahead with a radical change to Canadian culture without consulting the people. Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, so removing the monarch from the currency requires a serious political conversation and a vote by the people of this country.
It could be the government will make the controversial decision not to put Charles on the currency. If so, there are deep-rooted constitutional ramifications to that decision which while need to be studied carefully and debated in Parliament.
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Canada urged to drop monarchy from coins, stamps
Bloody well enough with the British Royals on our stamps and coins.torontosun.com
The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
Dump the monarchy.The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed
Author of the article:Christina Blizzard
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 7 Comments
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo.
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
It’s hard to imagine a $20 Canadian bill without Queen Elizabeth II’s face smiling out at us.
We’ll have to get used to it.
It’s customary, as soon as one monarch dies, for the Royal Canadian Mint to begin replacing the currency, both coins and paper money, with the new one. The banknotes won’t be replaced overnight, but gradually phased out of circulation as new ones with Charles’ image replace them.
The same will happen with stamps, although there’s already a republican move afoot to replace the monarch on both banknotes and stamps, according to a Toronto Sun article.
“The stamps and coins of an independent nation on the eve of its 150th anniversary should celebrate its own people and achievements, not those living in the palaces of a foreign nation,” the Sun quoted Wayne Adam, of Canada’s Republic Now, as saying in 2016.
The group said the country’s current prime minister is a better candidate than the Queen, who appears on the obverse of most Canadian coins. She always faces right on coins. Charles will face left, honouring a tradition that goes back to the time of Charles II. Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed. The same doesn’t happen with stamps.
The Queen only appears on the $20 bill, but in the past, Mint officials discussed dropping the monarch altogether from our money, according to one report. In 2016, Reuters reported that the Mint had pondered a plan to get rid of Charles on banknotes when the Queen died.
In the documents, central bank staff working on the redesign of the 2012 $20 bill wrote that depicting the reigning monarch was “a matter of tradition,” and suggested it could be discontinued.
“In the event the Queen dies or abdicates before the new notes are issued, a decision will need to be taken as to whether to continue this tradition or to replace the image” with some other portrait subject, a 2008 policy advice paper read.
Staff were concerned about the increased costs and delays of reworking designs if the monarch changed before the design process was done, documents obtained by Reuters under freedom of information legislation showed.
The issue of Elizabeth’s potential death came up several times at the Bank of Canada between 2007 and 2015, the documents showed.
What is shocking about that revelation is that it appears Mint officials were pushing ahead with a radical change to Canadian culture without consulting the people. Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, so removing the monarch from the currency requires a serious political conversation and a vote by the people of this country.
It could be the government will make the controversial decision not to put Charles on the currency. If so, there are deep-rooted constitutional ramifications to that decision which while need to be studied carefully and debated in Parliament.
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Canada urged to drop monarchy from coins, stamps
Bloody well enough with the British Royals on our stamps and coins.The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
I had a rich girlfriend once. Then she spent all my money.im not overly concerned about whos on the money. i just wish i had a rich girlfriend.
What happens tomorrow?
It's been an emotional day for many. The streets and the parks around Buckingham Palace, at Windsor Castle and Balmoral, have been thronged with members of the public, many bearing flowers and letters of condolence.
So what happens on Saturday?
- At 10:00 BST, Charles III will be officially proclaimed as King at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace in London, attended by his son, Prince William
- At 11:00 BST, following the Accession Council meeting, the Principal Proclamation announcing Charles as sovereign will be read from the balcony
- At 12:00 BST, the same proclamation will be read at the Royal Exchange in the City of London, and then at midday on Sunday in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
- Flags will return to full mast for 26 hours to mark the occasion of the new monarch following the proclamation in London, until one hour after the proclamations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. They will return to half mast during the period of national mourning
- Between 14:00-22:00 BST on Saturday Parliament will gather for MPs to pay their respects to the late Queen
I do appreciate you keeping us informed about this, Blackleaf. Having mixed feelings about the UK myself, I'm still sensible of how momentous this occasion is.
24 hours ago it seemed weird when people on the news were saying "the King" and "King Charles III". It also seemed like a fictional character in a book or movie. It just didn't seem real. Now, tonight, I'm just starting to get used to having King Charles III as Head of State.
William and Kate named Prince and Princess of Wales
During King Charles's speech earlier this evening, he announced his son William and his wife Catherine would become the new Prince and Princess of Wales.
The King added the Prince of Wales title was one he had "been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty".
It means William is following in his father's footsteps, and Catherine has become the first person since Diana, Princess of Wales to use the title.
Catherine is said to "appreciate the history", but will "want to look to the future as she creates her own path", a source said.
She described Diana as "an inspirational woman to look up to" following her engagement to Prince William in 2010.
In all honesty, I hope that King Charles will, after a couple of years, step down and let William take over.
Yes he's trained for being King for all his life, but I am not sure he's right to be King until his death. IMO, take time to have the position he's trained for, for a while, then turn it over to William so he will have the years to put in and make the monarchy better than it's ever been.
Upsides, downsides. . .
King Charles has redeemed his shaky past, and the Brits seem to like Queen Camilla. They can love Diana without having her loom over them these days.
As you say, Charles has been training for this for well over half a century.
Charles is already well past retirement age. It's not like William would be a boy king. He's 40 now.
The Brits seem to like their monarchy conservative to the point of stodginess, and William's well past skateboarding down the palace halls.
Kate would make a great queen.
Dodged a bullet with William being the elder and Harry the younger.
So, yeah, Charles is perfectly acceptable, and will likely do a fine job. But it'd be nice if William succeeded before 50.
Charles will likely be very different as King as he was in all those decades as Prince of Wales, just as Johnson became far more serious and less clownish when he became PM. Charles now has the top job in the country and he'll take it seriously.
It was the Queen, of course, who ensured that Camilla would be styled Queen Camilla when Charles takes the Throne. There was going to be a break with tradition and she wasn't going to use that title, but I think it was either last year or the year before that the Queen ordered that she would take the title. Camilla isn't an actual Queen or a monarch, she merely has the title of Queen as the wife of the King. She's Queen Consort.
I don't think the British public were too enamoured of Camilla in years gone by but in recent years we've realised she seems quite a nice a woman and have warned to her.
As for William and Kate, I think they are a lovely couple and will make a lovely King William IV and Queen Catherine. I shudder to think of King Henry IX and Queen Meghan.
Yeah. She's not an actual Queen or monarch, she just takes the title Queen.
For some reason, the husband of an actual Queen is called a Prince (like Prince Philip) whereas the wife of an actual King is called a Queen, like Queen Camilla or Elizabeth II's mother Queen Elizabeth (not Queen Elizabeth II).
Generally referred to as "Queen." Elizabeth was "Queen Regnant."
They don't have that problem with kings. "Mr Queen" is just "Prince."