Canadian Tire money is plentiful and more than just useful at your local retail outlet. The Monopoly-esque nigh-legal tender has spread across Canada faster than SARS, West Nile, or Avian Flu. Canadian Tire money, the colourful currency that looks, smells, and feels like real cash...but not quite accepted everywhere.

Now from a distance, Canadian Tire money looked like honest, earnest Canadian money (until they started putting them shiny anti-counterfeiting stripes on them). But upon close examination, you realized that old Sandy McTire, the Scotsman whose face adorns the front of the funny bucks is not exactly the spitting image of Queen Elizabeth Number Two, but then who is?