City hall poster continues to ruffle feelings

A poster welcoming people to the refurbished city hall (briefly discussed previously) is continuing to ruffle feelings, Yves‑François Blanchet being the latest to deplore the figures depicted. Or rather, one of the figures: a woman in a headscarf.

When the sign was first noticed, the Journal ran a lot of sputtering criticism. I thought the outrage had begun to die down, but three days ago, La Presse ran an op‑ed from an Iranian feminist also deploring the image.

Surely city hall knew what they were evoking. I’d love to have overheard those discussions.