Canada has become a place where a mayor can arbitrarily decide freedom of speech is not only “hate” but “transphobic.”

In this case, Hamilton’s mayor has “directed” that a billboard with a message discussing gender and children be immediately removed.

“This afternoon, my office was made aware of a transphobic ad on a billboard along the Linc (Lincoln Alexander Pkwy.),” wrote Mayor Andrea Horwath. “While the billboard is not city-owned, it sits on city-leased space, and city advertising rules were not followed. We’ve directed Astral Media to remove it and put stronger safeguards in place.”

And just like that — on the mayor’s orders — the billboard was down.

So what did it say? What was so offensive that it needed government censorship?

“Let kids be kids,” with a subtitle that added, “s

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