I always figured this thread should be for eye rolling news stories, not super depressing ones.
So here’s a good one. Apparently the Borg, yes the Star Trek villains, are now too offensive for Canadians.
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Troller is an avid fan of the "Star Trek" TV franchise and in 2015 got the plate which features a well-known saying by the alien race the Borg. He put the ASIMIL8 plate in a border that stated:, "We are the Borg" and "Resistance is futile."
In a recently filed legal brief, Troller explained that he drove around with the plate for nearly two years and no one complained. He renewed it with MPI in 2016 without issue.
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The communications show the plate was cancelled not after a formal complaint but when a social media post was spotted by a government employee.
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Even after he heard Troller’s explanation that it was a Star Trek reference and not meant as an offensive message about Indigenous people, Keith said it made no difference.
“Even with the rationale he provided, the meaning is the exact same regardless of what race — human or alien — it applies to.
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...ent-emails-say