I am Canadian.
Voila!
(Yeah, there's water there...stinking cat knocked water from a nightstand onto the bed/macbook, it's sitting in rice...)
Precisely! Especially considering disposal and laws around defacing money. Most bizarre.You'd think there was some sort of law against using money as a component in a retail product, no? Same way you can't rip a dollar bill or write on them legally. Wouldn't it have been a much better choice for them to just throw some sort of shim in there? (especially something that would cost less than 25 cents per unit to make)
My guess is that these were units sold by "Value Added" resellers?