A University of New Brunswick professor is a member of the advisory panel that will help narrow down the list of Canadian women nominated to be featured on a new bank note to be issued in 2018.
Dr. Margaret Conrad is a historian who works on Canadian history and women’s studies and she says she supports all efforts to give women symbolic representation.
“It’s not giving us pay equity and it’s ironic we’re on bank note in this context but it’s something that can be done quite easily…” says Dr Conrad. “We handle money all the time and we commemorate a great many things but we rarely commemorate women in important ways and so on a medium such as money why not have a few more women other than the Queen.”
Dr. Conrad says the panel is tasked with coming up with a long list which then goes out to the public for a vote and then it comes back to the panel which must come up with a short list. The final decision will be made by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
The Bank of Canada website, which is where you can submit your nomination, says nominees msut be a Canadian who has “demonstrated outstanding leadership, achievement or distinction in any field benefiting the people of Canada, or in the service of Canada.”
The nominee must also have been dead for 25 years.
