Max Genest - October 07, 2025


$21,000 TAX MONEY... FOR THIS BANNER？

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A blatant abuse of taxpayer dollars! The City of Toronton paid for a billboard that says, "English is a foreign language, maintaining beauty requires resistance, love revolution." Who funded this billboard and what does the public think of it?

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00:00:00.320 so this whole graffiti is done by city of torrent yeah so your taxpayer dollars paid for it
00:00:07.280 this is max net reporting from toronto city hall and i'm here to report a blatant
00:00:11.360 abuse of taxpayer dollars look at this billboard what is it it states clearly english is a foreign
00:00:20.000 language maintaining beauty requires resistance love revolution this is the plaque per se
00:00:26.480 dedicated to this monstrosity let's read what it has to say read the statement written on city hall
00:00:32.080 and reflect on the realities faced by indigenous artists under the ongoing attacks of settler
00:00:36.800 colonialism and the limitations of the arts industrial complex and who funded this the city
00:00:42.800 of toronto now you gotta be asking yourself where did this all start with niri blanche what is this
00:00:48.560 niri blanche well according to the city of toronto's own website it's an annual all-night
00:00:52.800 celebration of contemporary art produced by the city of toronto in collaboration with toronto's
00:00:56.960 art community its locations theme curation now what do people think of just the sign itself well
00:01:02.960 let's do some street interviews and get some public reaction hello sir hi we're just asking
00:01:07.360 okay thank you very much for blowing that in my face nice guy it shouldn't be a priority right it's
00:01:12.960 um this whatever budget was it right it could be sent somewhere else on like helping homeless or
00:01:17.840 helping whatever like even improving the city itself and we know there's a lot of issues with
00:01:23.120 infrastructure right with all the things what's happening right now in toronto and like in canada
00:01:28.720 it's good very good it's good yeah pink is uh nice and pretty english is not a foreign language english
00:01:34.800 is international language it's not foreign no i don't understand the meaning do you think english
00:01:40.640 is a foreign language okay it's a global language but still foreign to like some folks
00:01:53.760 love revolution does that mean you love revolution or does it mean a revolution of love i'm not sure
00:02:02.240 it doesn't you know basically the point of this is you don't have to accept everything that's
00:02:08.160 imposed on you you can fight for your rights in this country okay do you think that maybe the
00:02:13.920 taxpayer money could have been allocated to for something else since the city of toronto paid for
00:02:18.800 it directly so this whole graffiti is done by city of toronto yeah so your taxpayer dollars paid for
00:02:25.520 it i'm wondering maybe you know i think then it could have been utilized better i think this is
00:02:30.320 more for like a private or a charity organization not for something like city of toronto to pay
00:02:35.680 yeah i mean i don't mind it whatever it's not hurting anybody it's making a statement i don't
00:02:40.080 i don't care personally if taxpayer dollars are going towards it i am now back in my winnipeg
00:02:44.960 studio and juno just broke the news that a city hall spokesperson reportedly told them
00:02:50.000 they spent 21 000 taxpayer dollars on that sign now i already filed my access for
00:02:56.160 information request they have 30 days to respond we're gonna get the truth