Trudeau calls homophobic graffiti outside Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s home ‘inexcusable’

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