There’s a reason to hold off on naming things after people who are still alive: Paul Haggis’ birthplace finally voted this week to strip the Oscar winner’s name off a park in his Canadian hometown, a month after he was found liable for raping a woman in New York City.
The city council in London, Ontario, voted unanimously Tuesday to rename Paul Haggis Park, which took on the name of the “Crash” writer-director in 2011.
“The sign will be removed by city staff, all reference to it will also be removed from the city website immediately,” Councillor Elizabeth Peloza said, according to CTV News. “Then the renaming of the park will go through the civic administration [process] and then it’ll be renamed.”
