Sean Blaney, a New Brunswick botanist, has a view of the Norwegian maple tree as a kind of interloper. It’s a strain of Maple that came here in the 18th Century and “really shouldn’t be in Canada.” Right Sean. You can see that if you start where Sean is at, it really is a scandal that the Norwegian Maple leaf appears to have found its way onto the new polymer Canadian $20 bill. The image here shows the Norwegian leaf on the left and the Canadian Sugar Maple leaf on the right. The Sugar Maple is the one on our national flag. How upset any of us should be about this is debatable. A lot of our relatives sneaked into pre-Canada in the 18th century. A comment in response to this story is enlightening: “This is outrageous,” say the reader. “I will soon be putting up a post office box address where you can send me all of these insulting $20 bills that you might have in your possession so that I can perhaps take a truckload of them to Ottawa to represent our collective anger to Parliament. I may even demand to speak to the Prime Minister or the Governor General about this.”