"There is no friend anywhere," perhaps you should learn more about John A. MacDonald. As long as I've understood drinking problems I've known he had one, but everyone knows that. A more recent discovery for me has been an editorial cartoon from a mid-to-late 1800s (19th Century) edition of a Canadian newspaper or magazine. In that cartoon Sir John is standing in the presence of extremely impoverished, starving First Nations people. He has a bag of money that is clearly budgeted for those starving people and he is handing it to a fat-cat business-corporate-industry person behind his back.

That cartoon speaks volumes. For one thing, it shows that cheating Indigenous People was a known corruption of government and business at least 100 years ago, and as much as 150 years ago. The media knew it, and therefore the people also knew it.

MacDonald gets "bumped" to a higher denomination bill, and that is more, much more, than he deserves.