Here Are All the Ways Canadians Are Denouncing Donald Trump

Everyone in the world who isn't a total asshole hates Donald Trump right now, for good reason.

The Republican presidential hopeful announced yesterday that he'd support a blanket policy barring all Muslims from entering the United States.

"We have no choice but to do this," the reality TV star turned protofascist candidate said. "We have people that want to blow up our buildings, our cities. We have to figure out what's going on."

In addition to not making any sense from a policy standpoint, Trump's comments are xenophobic as hell and have been rightfully condemned by leaders in America and around the world. Canadians are doing their part, too. A petition calling for Trump to be banned from entering Canada had garnered 950 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.

"We suspect that there are reasonable grounds that Mr. Trump poses a security threat to Canadians based upon his remarks calling for 'a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,'" wrote petition author Rajin Singh. "Statements of this extreme nature may act to embolden violence against members of the Canadian Muslim population."

There are also movements in Vancouver and Toronto to have the Trump brand removed from towers operated by his organization.

Toronto Councillor Josh Matlow has publicly implored Talon International, which owns the downtown luxury hotel bearing Trump's name, to scrub it from the building.

A spokesman for the company told the Toronto Star that there's "a legal agreement in place on the brand."

Meanwhile in Vancouver, Councillor Kerry Jang has requested Trump's name be taken down from a soon-to-be completed 63-story hotel in the city.

Not much is likely to come of these movements. Local governments can't control the signage of private companies, and the feds aren't going to ban Trump from entering Canada unless he commits a crime. Not that the government hasn't tried. Former left-wing British MP George Galloway was restricted from entering Canada in a 2009 decision that was eventually overturned. And earlier this year, tens of thousands of people rallied to have douchebag pickup artist Roosh V prohibited from entering the country; he still came and got beer thrown in his face.

With any luck, businesses will distance themselves from Trump on their own so that when his stain of an election run is over, he'll be left with nothing but his racist rhetoric (and his billions of dollars).

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