A recent Reddit post sparked widespread angry responses on social media. It also had the phone lines to the Alberta town flooded with even more irate calls and e-mails demanding that the offensive billboard be taken down. As the mayor later explained, although near a major provincial highway, it was put up by a private company and is on private land. It had nothing to do with the town, other than being a major source of embarrassment and anger.
The billboard was put up by a fringe political group that advocates for western separation from Canada. Their timing could not have been much worse.
Source: Daily Hive
A billboard ad in central Alberta promoting the province becoming the 51st U.S. state has sparked some backlash online.
The billboard, reportedly in Bowden, reads, “Tell Danielle! Let’s Join the USA!” alongside an image of Premier Danielle Smith posing with U.S. President Donald Trump during her visit to the President’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.
