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I thought it was poignant

A publishing company in New Brunswick, Canada, has terminated its contract with cartoonist Michael de Adder after a drawing he did of President Donald Trump standing over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral on social media.


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Good on the company!
@TopCat Why ?
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@TopCat please...elaborate
As a company they didn't agree with it (be it the subject or the manner in which it was done), so well done to them for sicking with their standards rather than letting it drop coz it proved popular.
@TopCat What are Canadian standards regarding “free speech” ?
@bijouxbroussard I don't know, I'm not Canadian :p but I would get fired or a disciplinary at work if I did that in the UK
@TopCat I see. In the U.S. it would probably depend on where you worked, and the company’s politics.
@bijouxbroussard well US employment law is, umm, I'm gonna go with, lacking, compared to ours so I'm not surprised at all. Also a US company wouldn't have cared coz it is popular and therefore made money
@TopCat What do [b]you[/b] see as “lacking” regarding U.S. employment law ? I’m not necessarily disagreeing, just curious.
@bijouxbroussard pensions, grounds of dismissal, notice periods, relocation/travel. The employee seems to have very few rights and the power lays mostly with the company.
@TopCat You’re not wrong, there. Incidentally, I took a look at past cartoons by De Adder regarding Trump and this one was relatively typical. The company is denying that they fired him over it, saying that they were planning to bring back someone else, and the contract was in negotiation anyway.