Lorne Grabher displays his personalized licence plate in Dartmouth, N.S. on Friday, March 24, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew VaughanA Nova Scotia man's long fight to get back a personalized licence plate bearing his surname, "Grabher," came to an abrupt end Thursday as the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal of his case.
"We are disappointed with the decision," said Grabher's lawyer, Jay Cameron of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. He pointed out that a "Grabher" plate is currently in use in Alberta, while he said a Manitoba court had previously ruled that the charter does apply to personalized licence plates. Grabher was not immediately available for comment Thursday.
The case came before the country's top court after the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal unanimously ruled last August that the trial judge was right to conclude that Grabher's licence plate was not an area to which freedom of expression applied.
'His...plate, which he had for nearly 30 years, was recalled by the...Registrar of Motor Vehicles in...2016 after it received a complaint that the word promoted hatred toward women.' The complainer should retract & apologize for the false complaint. It is the owners surname!
Sucks to be you let it go
WHY is this individual SO OBSESSED with his Surname vanity plate? WHY would he pursue his appeal right up to the Supreme Court? That may be his last name, but it is creepy.......
Sorry you are White and not Aboriginal or Black so forget it ! If you had been one or the other it would have been dealt With! Welcome to our new world Grabber! We had it for a long time !
Unfortunate street sign over the garage
I just don’t understand why people knowing that they’re wrong but they still want too continue with their shit
Seriously? Put as much effort into changing your last name. Why so much pride in a name that could be read as violent out of context? He doesn’t get it?
Sheesh you lost 😠 now deal with it 🤯 just put the plate in your back window🤷🏻♀️
Yikes!! The jewellery, the dark glasses, the buttoned-down shirt, and then the license plate to top it all off!
We’ve become overly sensitive and very stupid.
Gosh, I thought it was Harry Butt at first
HerCrab would go down better. 😂🤣😅😆
For the love of...anything WHO CARES!!!!
Lol good luck with that PCP draw.Drop a letter or change it ,but quit whinning over your so called right to promote sexual inuendo.
No one cares about your name. You’ve got it posted on your home and rec’d more than your 15mins of fame in the media. That’s more than you would have rec’d from your license plate.
This has been going on for aslong as I can remember.
Let it go!!!
When you get offended by someone’s name
My last name is missing an S because some immigration officer in the 1950’s thought two were stupid. Anderson instead of Andersson.
I don’t think this is a battle about last names, just attention seeking, like the judge said, next…
Remove all custom plates then. One will only qualify for a specialty plate if thier 'name' doesn't offend the snowflakes....
What about Saskatchewan’s Assman?
Where should he 'grab her'
Nooo! Don't worry... it's his sister!!!
This story is still in the news Has this not been going on for years?
It is a variation of a surname in Switzerland and Germany maybe we should stop allowing names to be on license plates altogether and that issue would be no more ....in Europe to my knowledge no customized plates would be issued
Wasting taxpayer money
Now that's news... and it's so centralized...
Oh it’s his last name? Well, that’s unfortunate. That’s because it can be interpreted something different by some people. I know he wants to use his last name, but it kind of invites bad attention, because people aren’t gonna know that, or understand. I mean look at my last name.
Justice for Grabher! 😂
Or maybe we should cancel therapists. Cause you know put a space between the e and the r…. look out
It’s his last fucking name. What’s the issue. All the snowflakes are upset?!? Let me introduce to my friend Catherine Hooker. No joke. Should we just cancel her too?
But you can drive around with F—- Trudeau on your pu truck. Grabher is the mans name.
Maybe we should just get rid of personalized licensed plates.
I’ll bet if his last name was anything else, he wouldn’t want to plaster it everywhere.
Let it go!!
I’d bet a thousand dollars if his name would be “grabhim “there’d be zero issue, females are way more insecure.
Meanwhile in Ukraine…
Why the fuck is this news
Don’t blame them…what a waste of time! How is this even news?
Tired to hear it again. hey big man, change name.
He could just change the number plate but paint GRABHER on the car. That would be a proper middle finger to everyone who is against him. It's his name. Get over it. Free country.
Another win for the 1%ers.
This is still ongoing ?🤦♀️
He should move to Dildo Cove in Newfoundland, he can open the Grabher-Dildo Grill. Time to let it go sir! Think of the money you will save on annual license fees.
What’s ridiculous is that the Supreme Court of Canada should ever have had to consider this application in the first place. The public would see this as ‘grab her’, I’d never heard of that surname prior to this. No common sense anymore. Utter nonsense.
By the time he gets an appeal he won't be able to drive anymore.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump says one sentence and this guy needs to come up with a new plate after 30 years.
Anyone stopping the sale of this in Canada?
😂😂😂
This dude just gotta let this rest.
OH MY GOD LORNE. Just go away. Let it go. Is this now your sole purpose? Perhaps cantankerous should be fittes to your licenseplate.
You just know the guy who owns this plate would look like this.
Drink the grape Kool-Aid
good
No soup for him.
My plate says TRUD OPE. WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TELL ME TO REMOVE IT. LMFAO
Maybe compromise on both sides and change the spelling. Take the H out maybe ?
It's ridiculous that some ones last name can be the subject of this sort of stupidity. If you don't like some ones name, tough shit. If it rattles you, for whatever reason, tough shit. You should be able to display your name anywhere, even a vanity plate.
Too many arseholes out there with a point to make...want it back like it was 100 years ago with advances of today. Anger fear resentment of how women and minorities have advanced
Don't waste the court's time with such trivial matters.
Good.
Jesus just let it go Grabher
Get over it big boy!
Maybe he pronounces it Greybur
Thank goodness this has been going on for years enough already
It's his last name. Bruce Cockburn had his name on his Albums with NO backlash.
Is that trump's license plate?
The fact he can't have his last name is a joke beyond anything I've seen. Idiots everywhere.
He should change his last name.
Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean you should.
This man tried to appeal to the Supreme Court?🤦♂️
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