Ontario Homeowner Can Still Fly Her Flag

Don't give up. Don't apologise:

A woman in the Niagara region city of Port Colborne, Ontario, is allowed to keep flying an anti-Trudeau flag on her home after challenging a city order to remove it.

The flag says F*ck Trudeau, with the “u” represented by a maple leaf.

The homeowner put the flag up the day after the September 2021 federal election, following her disappointment with the Liberal party victory.

In November, the homeowner, referred to as “Melissa,” read a story in a local newspaper about the city’s displeasure with the flag on her home. She was unaware of any controversy until then.

Days later, she received a registered notice from the city that she was required to remove the flag for violating a Port Colborne property standards bylaw that states “exterior walls of a dwelling and their components shall be free of unauthorized signs, painted slogans, graffiti and similar defacements.”

The Alberta-based Canadian Consitution Foundation (CCF) became aware of the case and assisted the homeowner in appealing the order. The CCF is a non-partisan charitable organization that focuses on cases involving Canadian constitutional rights and freedoms.

“Like every citizen of Canada, Melissa has a Charter-protected right to express her political views. She is flying a flag on her own property, expressing a political sentiment that frankly is not even that uncommon. If her flag bothers some people at Port Colborne city hall, I suggest they drive down a different street instead of trying to tell Melissa what she can and cannot say,” said CCF Litigation Director Christine Van Geyn in a statement.

Van Geyn told National Post the city specifically cited the language used in the flag, suggesting it was profanity. “Technically, it is not profanity,” Van Geyn said, adding the homeowner sourced the flag online.

Melissa filed a notice and paid a fee to challenge the city’s bylaw order, and was initially told her appeal would not be heard.

But this week, under threat of legal action, the city rescinded the order, and Melissa is allowed to keep flying the flag.

 

And why would she put up such a flag?

Hhhmmm ... :

“Here is Justin Trudeau, a sanctimonious, self-serving, self-righteous, inept, unethical, immoral and corrupt man, who can now add evil to the list,” writes Bederman. 

“Here we are in 2022 and our leaders are scapegoating the non-vaccinated, blaming them for the continuation of the pandemic,” she wrote. ”Like other evil leaders, they divide rather than unite. They promote fear rather than courage and strength. Pit one group against another.”

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The day after Quebec announced a new tax on unvaccinated adults, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says provinces are “right” to look at new ways to encourage people to get vaccinated.

 

Like this non-creepy way of "encouraging" children: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging children to get vaccinated as he tried to speak to them directly during his press conference on Wednesday.

 

I'll just leave this right here:

(Sidebar: the above cartoon pertains to this sad article here. Any resemblance between the creep and a corporate mascot are entirely coincidental, I'm sure.)