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Trudeau calls homophobic graffiti outside Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s home ‘inexcusable’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s «appalled» that homophobic graffiti was painted on the road in front of Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s home over the weekend.
Trudeau says in a tweet that there’s no place for this kind of «ignorance and inexcusable hate» in Canada.
On Sunday, one of Watson’s neighbours noticed a three-word, homophobic slur against the mayor painted on the road outside his home.
The neighbour called the Ottawa Police Service, which has engaged its hate crimes unit to investigate the incident, theglobeandmail.com reports.
The city power-washed the graffiti off the road.
Watson, who became Ottawa’s longest-serving mayor on Saturday, came out as a gay man in August 2019, according to theglobeandmail.com