‘Stand For Canada’ signs could get a pass on bylaw fines in Brampton: report [Video]

Property owners could get an exemption from the city’s sign bylaws to promote Brampton’s “Stand For Canada” campaign.

While Brampton City Council is updating bylaws with stiffer penalties for election campaigns breaking the city’s sign bylaws, council is looking to give residents a pass on signs for Brampton’s push-back against U.S. Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Along with a tariff task force and a potential new International Markets Corporation, the city launched its “Stand Up For Canada” campaign, urging municipalities and businesses to buy locally-made and Canadian goods amid the back-and-forth trade war.

But signs promoting the city-run campaign would go against Brampton’s Sign By-law 399-2002 – a loophole city council is looking to change with tweaks to the bylaw going to committee later this week.

If approved, the changes would allow property owners to display signs “provided by the official Stand For Canada campaign” that are no larger than 0.4 square metres.

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