Pamela Anderson Told No?

While the red-bathing suit clad Baywatch girl is used to showing off her curves, the city of Montreal isn’t ready to display them on a huge billboard in their city.

Pamela Anderson, who was in town this week to host a Just For Laughs Festival gala show, is known for being curvaceous as well as animal-friendly. When she arrived in the city she found out she had been denied a permit to launch her new PETA campaign because the ad she posed for, in which she’s wearing a teeny weenie bikini and her body is labelled after different cuts of meat (i.e., breasts, ribs, hump, leg, etc.), was deemed too risqué by city officials (the billboard reads “All animals have the same parts. Have a heart — Go vegetarian.”)

"In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest," Anderson said in a statement reprinted by The Canadian Press. "In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas — is that next? I didn't think that Canada would be so puritanical."

The denial has had mixed reaction. Montreal film commissioner Daniel Bissonnette (the office who denied the permit) said, "On one hand we're working for an organization where we're getting reminded on a daily basis that we should work in a sexism-free environment and that equality between men and women and the image of women is very important. On the other hand, it's not our intention at all to prevent people from going in the public domain and sharing their message."

The ad was going to be revealed at Montréal's Place Jaques-Cartier and was instead unveiled at Restaurant Globe yesterday morning at a press conference for Anderson’s Just For Laughs show, which took place last night.