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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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Date: 
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:14:01 GMT
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The Queen is on every piece of Canadian currency I believe....on the
opposite side of the beavers, birds, and leaves.

I was amazed when I was working in Oz a couple of years ago to find the
Queens head on their currency – she is not on Scottish notes. What is the
situation on Canada?

--
-TiM
NB, CA
http://echofx.itgo.com
t_c_c@yahoo.com
3ch0fx



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  Re: My Gun Control Rant
 
(...) <pulling out my wallet> $5 - Wilfred Laurier and a belted kingfisher $10 - John A. MacDonald and an osprey $20 - the Queen and a common loon $50 - now property of the casino $100 - Robert Borden she is on all the coins, however, IIRC. (23 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) It is pretty much the same here - she only really acts on the advice of the privy council (politicians). If she ever where to speak on a political issue, I think she'd find her self out of a job. The closest we get the "Royals" medalling in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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