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https://heatst.com/culture-wars/canada-man-ordered-to-surrender-offensive-star-trek-license-plate/
Awesome. "ASIMIL8" license plate is offensive to minorities, lol. Oh Canada, has hopped on the dumb*** train.
Kinda reminds me of the German license plates while I was stationed here.
Anyone that was ever stationed in Germany can tell you their license plates are by the closest decent sized city and often have one, two or three letters as the start of the license plate. I.E. Wittlich city's codes started with "WIT" or "KL" for Kaiserslauten. First three letters are followed by two letters and three numbers.
In Spangdahlem, they used the local town code of Bitburg as the plates issued to American forces. So, you have BIT as the town code followed by two more letters and numbers. And when the BIT CH plates came into base, everyone had a chuckle. Until a couple of overly sensitive folks complained about it and they replaced them with the BIT DA series.
ETA: They looked like this:
