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Donald Trump’s name no longer has a place in Canadian business — especially not on city highrises, argued city councillors in Toronto and Vancouver on Tuesday.

Toronto Coun. Josh Matlow and Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang want the Trump name stripped for the downtown towers in their cities in the wake of the unpalatable views of the U.S. Republican presidential candidate.

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Matlow said on Twitter that he’s writing to Talon Industries Inc, developer of Toronto’s tower, to ask that it abandon the Trump brand in the wake of Trump’s proposed immigration policies.

Jang said he wrote to the developer to work something out to remove the name from Vancouver’s skyline, what he called a “beacon of racism,” regardless of cost.

“When it comes to fighting racism, we should spare no expense,” he said. “His name is associated with bigotry and intolerance.”

Fuelling Matlow’s move is the business mogul’s pledge to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. and earlier references to Mexican immigrants as “rapists.”