A new mural of Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg was vandalized on Sunday while a CBC reporter was filming footage of the wall painting. An Edmonton resident identified as James Bagnell walked up to the wall with a can of spray paint and wrote, “Stop the Lies! This is Oil Country!”

Bagnell told the CBC reporter when he saw photos of the mural on social media, he immediately decided he needed to go to the wall to take care of it.

“This is Alberta. This is oil country. My father has worked in the oil industry. We don’t need foreigners coming in and telling us how to run our business, support our families, put food on our tables,” Bagnell explained to the CBC. “I think it’s absolutely intolerant of them to tell us how to change our lives and our people. She should go back to her country and try to make her country better.”

Bagnell added Thunberg should “just shut up” until she has some solutions. He said his father, who recently passed away, would be “disgusted” to see the wall painting of the teen activist.

On Sunday afternoon, another man added a derogatory slur and, “Agent provacateur out of Canada!” Thunberg’s eyes were also blackened out.

AJA Louden, the local artist who painted the mural, said he was not upset about it since the wall it was painted on encourages free expression.

Louden wrote, “Nothing lasts forever — one of my favourite things about that wall is that anyone is allowed to express themselves there, so I’m not upset at all. I haven’t seen what went over it, but if anyone is upset about what was painted over the portrait, they can just paint back over it, it’s not a big deal at all.”

Sixteen-year-old Thunberg traveled to Edmonton on Friday for the climate strike at the Alberta Legislature which thousands of people attended.

One person wrote that it was “the largest demonstration at the Alberta Legislature” that he has ever witnessed.