It’s always a good morning when I can get sucked into controversy on Twitter before 9am.

Reports out of Ottawa today reveal that the new plastic Canadian $100 (which, as a poor person, I only see on TV) originally had a vaguely Asian-looking woman on the back, but focus groups had a problem with that:

One person in Fredericton commented “The person on it appears to be of Asian descent which doesn’t rep(resent) Canada. It is fairly ugly.”

If ever there was a good time to *facepalm*, it is now – so many what the fucks.

• Canada is multicultural – featuring someone who isn’t Caucasian on one section of our 6 coins and 5 bills isn’t multicultural ENOUGH, but it would have been a great start.
• If you really want to get nitpicky (and apparently, people do) the woman being vaguely Asian or not wasn’t the POINT – it was supposed to celebrate medical advancements in Canada
• Why the fuck does the release of new bank notes require a focus group? It’s money. Make it available, and we’ll spend it.
• How much did that focus group cost? How much did the emergency redesign cost?
• Was ANYONE from that focus group from the West Coast? We aren’t nearly as afraid of Asians as they seem to be in NB and QC.
• They removed the offending vaguely Asian threat and replaced it with .. the singer from A-ha:

taaaaaake oooooon meeeeeeeee .. taaaake meeeeee oooon

What the fuck. What the fuck all OVER the place.

Not happy with the decision the Bank of Canada made to de-Asian the bill, I decided to Asian it back up again on my own:

aww yeah

Finally. Money that represents MY Canada!

Jerks.