PETITION TO THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

MultiCultural Currency Campaign (MC³)

New Vision Offered not New World Ordered * New Vision Offered not New World Ordered

Have you taken a serious look at the new $5 Canadian bills recently? It is our suggestion you take another look. The Canadian Mint, Bank of Canada, has titled this bill “Children at Play” (2000 series)? The United States of America jokingly calls our currency, “monopoly money.” We call it Possibility Papers. Why? Flip to the back of our blue-note-bill and tell me if you can see anything wrong with ITS design-layout or composition? Still don’t see anything? Well, if you are Caucasian, which mind you I am, you may at first see absolutely nothing wrong with this verdant ice-hockey scene (perhaps w/ the exception of a #99 sweater, or the absence of a guardien de but (Goaltender). Is this a symbolic metaphor for our countries absence of a military defence system? Regardless, this in not the point under inspection). What is the point?

Have you heard of Grant Fuhr? Jarome Iginla (Maurice Richard & Art Ross Trophy Winner)? Herb Carnegie? Eldon “Pokey” Reddick? or Paul Kariya, perhaps? If not you have now. Once again what is the point? The point is these are ethnic hockey players who’s numbers are increasing daily in talent, size & ability. Our organization asks, Why can’t Middle Eastern, Native, or Latin American children play hockey too? Is this, “Children at Play”, ice nativity scene symbolic of “the nations” children? These are questions we believe need serious consideration. However, this web-site is not necessarily about hockey.

Signs, signifiers, icons, public propaganda and advertising campaigns bombard us daily with their symbols, trade marks, logos and billboards. You may think this is trivial to want to Change the Face-Off Currency, yet our organization believes this is a step-in-the-right direction of deconstructing the stigmas and stereotypes that can be associated with money. Those stereotypes being that money is the root of all evil. For us, in Canada, that equates to: Caucasians are the root of all evil (seeing as how Caucasian Europeans dominate the make-up of the bill); inversely speaking, par example, Asian’s would be the root of all evil if we were talking about the Japanese Yen. We believe the majority of our democracy can and will change this destructive equation. Hence, Possibility Papers Petition or MultiCultural Currency Campaign. For if any country could represent all of the Worlds races: African, Asian, European, Latino, Middle Eastern & Native; we know, as you know, and should know, we can all be represent on; and in; Canada’s scene in the snow. WHY CAN’T WE BE THE FIRST TO HAVE A MULTICULTURAL CURRENCY? JUST IMAGINE THE ¢HANGE . . . . .

Mission statement: To convince (by the objective year of 2007**) the Canadian government, literally putting their money where their mouth is, to syntactically represent the Canadian population as a Multicultural Mosaic on the back of the next issued currency (and fait there forward).

2. Setting a goal, or objective, which by the year 2007 we wish to see come about-face. With the backs of the dollar bills proudly, clearly, and sensibly displaying Canada’s true colours;

3. Create awareness using non violent protest, campaigning, to attain a goal of over One Million support signatures, or more, by means of: petitions, electronic petitions and any other media facets,

This is still a fledgling movement, building momentum. Every person counts, as you have read, and every penny counts towards making real change. Why have we taken this grassroots movement upon our selves? Simple. No one else seems to care, or is so blithely conditioned that they forgot to care. We are bringing back, and creating, a wave of awareness so we can peacefully and proudly step to the Honourable Minster of Finance, Bank of Canada and/or Ottawa with a defaced five dollar bill, in a glass picture frame, and present IT to the Prime Minister himself on Parliament Hill (if need be!). CHANGE WILL HAPPEN!

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THIS IS SERIOUS! IT IS ABOUT TIME CANADA STARTED PHYSICALLY REPRESENTING THE CULTURAL MOSAIC IT SO FALSELY PREACHES IN OUR POLEMICS, POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS. THERE ARE APRROXIMATELY 31 MILLION PEOPLE IN CANADA, HALF OR WHICH ARE OF ETHNIC ORIGIN, SO WHY NOT REPRESENT OUR NATION AS A WHOLE? OUR ORGANIZATION, TRUTH MEDIA & FCP, CAN LOOK PAST THE COLOUR OF OUR SKIN AND SEE BEAUTY IN ALL BLOOD, CREE, RACE, RELIGION, & GENDER. WILL YOU PLEASE HELP THE CAMPAIGN, SIGN THE PETITION, AND SPREAD THE WORD TO ELIMINATE RACISM IN CANADA AND THE WORLD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, PATIENCE & UNDERSTANDING. PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO ELIMATE HATE; DON’T DESCRIMINATE!

** Why 2007? 2007 is the 25^th ANNIVERSARY of The Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms. If this date is too soon for the Government of Canada we shall move our aim towards 2008, which is the 20^th ANNIVERSARY of the Multiculturalism Act of 1988. “Every individual is equal”, but, not on currency? Does that make sense? This petition gives the Government of Canada ample time to heed our suggestions. Besides being multi-cultural we do not know how the new bill will appear, however, we will suggest a nation wide competition. Regardless, we must realize, to eliminate racism starts with the mind and ends with the paper sign. No excuse shall be validated. CHANGE WILL HAPPEN!