If you didn’t know any better, you might think Toronto City Hall was tagged Saturday night with a mocking message saying its working language is “foreign,” while using words in English like “resistance” and “revolution.”

Either way, taxpayers will foot the bill because it turns out this was sanctioned and approved by the city as part of this year’s Nuit Blanche celebration. Whether you thought the illuminated message presented on the facing of City Hall was art or graffiti, one thing for sure is you paid for it.

Under Toronto’s Nuit Blanche program, artists are entitled to a taxpayer-funded grant of as much as $15,000 to install their works around with the city in what is a unique overnight art show on the streets.

It brought thousands downtown on a warm fall evening.

There were dozens

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