I thought it would be interesting to note upon a discovery I had made not a few days ago and this applies to our neighbors to the Great White North. I had visited Canada in 2012 for a weekend and enjoyed myself rather pleasantly and like any average person, would want to take back home a souvenir to remember this extraction. I had taken a 5 dollar Canadian bill which gave off the scent of maple syrup that is long gone and like average currency it was made of paper, that is until recently. A few years ago, the Bank of Canada issued new bank notes that are now made from plastic instead of paper, while the idea is to prevent counterfeiting it remains a wiser upside to the continued use of paper. Especially coinciding with Canada’s discontinuation of the penny in the same year I went, due to the penny’s lack of worth.