Canada’s Controversial $100 Bill
Canada’s $100 bill (Image: Bank of Canada)
The head of the Bank of Canada has apologized for provoking a racial controversy over an image on the country’s new $100 bill.
Originally, the bill was to show a female Asian scientist.
But the bank scrapped it after complaints by focus groups.
The Asian woman was replaced by a Caucasian female scientist.
Host Marco Werman gets the full story from Raymond Hyma, a policy researcher in Toronto.
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