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Freedom of Speech will be tested, this time in Montreal,Québec.

National Post

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Montreal Man takes borough to court over fine for painting flag of Greece on garage Door

A Montreal area man is taking his borough --municipality-- to court after a bylaw inspector ordered him to remove a giant Greek flag he painted on his garage door.

After watching the Greek national soccer team's remarkable European Championship win in 2004, Theodore Antonopoulous and his wife and sons spent two months painting the door. He even had to order special blue paint so it matched the mediterranean blue on the Greek flag.

But the paint had barely dried when an inspector from Pierrefonds, a borough in Montreal's West Island, turned up and ordered him to remove the flag because it contravened a local by law.

When Mr. Antanopoulos refused, the borough fined him $138.

STAY TUNE, AS THIS CASE MAY REACH THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA ON THE ISSUE OF FREE SPEECH!!