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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a frosted maple leaf-shaped transparent window is set into the polymer substrate, with the denomination printed below. The central vignette presents an intaglio portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada 1896–1911, rendered in fine line engraving against a coloured guilloche underprint. To the right, a vertical see-through holographic strip incorporates a secondary portrait of Laurier at its upper portion, a vignette of the Mackenzie Tower atop the West Block of Parliament in Ottawa at its lower portion, and repeating numeral and text elements throughout, bordered by a translucent maple leaf motif; the denomination and issue year appear at the extreme right edge. |
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| Signature(s) | Mark Carney and Tiff Macklem |
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The Carney/Macklem signature combination places this note in a narrow window — Macklem served as Senior Deputy Governor only until mid-2014, and Carney had already departed for the Bank of England by the time most of these entered circulation. The pairing appears on relatively few notes given the compressed overlap of their tenures.
Canada's shift to polymer with this series drew pointed public criticism over one specific practical complaint: the notes were reported to melt when left in hot vehicles, particularly in western provinces during summer. The Bank of Canada disputed the severity, but the story ran nationally.