Ryk Edelstein wipes the vanity licence plate on his Dodge Charger at his home in Montreal Tuesday August 28, 2018. Spence’s plate was recently returned to him. Spence also said the plate sparked positive reactions among those who knew about the song. However, Spence is Cree, and says he got the plate as an homage to the folk-rock song “NDN Kars,” by Anishinaabe musician Keith Secola. “NDN” (Indian) can be seen as offensive toward indigenous people. Article content NDN CARīruce Spence of Winnipeg got this licence plate back in 2012, but had it revoked for including an offensive phrase. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It’s one thing to get an offensive personal plate on purpose, but what about when it’s an accident? That’s what happened to some New Brunswickers who received government-issued random-number plates with “JAP” prefixes. In reality, he was apparently breaking the law, and the plate was rejected for having a political slogan. With the MAGA acronym – for “Make America Great Again” – emblazoned across the rear of his vehicle, Kletchko believed he was exercising his freedom of speech. Rod Kletchko lives in Regina but is an avid supporter of Donald Trump, and got a licence plate to commemorate that.
Sometimes it ends up on our licence plates, occasionally in the form of a particularly polarizing political opinion. Photo by BRANDON HARDER / Regina Leader-PostĪmerican politics seems to have this habit of trickling up across the border and catching the attention of Canada. Rod Kletchko stands near the Saskatchewan Legislative Building next to his Mercedes-Benz, which wears a Saskatchewan license plate bearing the letters MAGAUSA.
While the joke was originally supposed to be a reference to Star Trek, it backfired when passersby took it as an offensive remark aimed at immigrants or Indigenous Canadians. Nick Troller of Winnipeg thought his “ASIMIL8” plate was pretty neat when he got it in 2015. Then when the DMV told him to change his plates, he refused to do that, too.Ī Manitoba licence plate reading ‘ASIMIL8’ was intended as a “Star Trek” reference but raised ire for being offensive to Indigenous cultures and Canada’s history of assimilating them. The bill came to $12,000, which Droogie refused to pay. Unfortunately, instead of erasing his ticket, Droogie was stuck with every outstanding ticket given to someone with a missing or unreadable. It turns out the third party that processes the citations enters the phrase NULL into every field for which they have incomplete data. It was a clever idea, but it didn’t work.
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