Fresh from the dastardly and sinister business of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza with the Viva Palestina convoy, George Galloway was planning to go to Canada to speak at an anti-war meeting in Toronto at the end of the month. But his plans have now been thrown into confusion by a banning order slapped on him by the Canadian government who have declared that he is a threat to national security.
This really is the height of hypocrisy by the right-wing government in Canada that claims it has troops in Afghanistan to promote democracy but at home it is doing all it can to suppress it.
The government's move comes after some university authorities in Canada took it upon themselves to ban a poster produced for Israel Apartheid Week, depicting in graphical form children being targeted by Israeli Apache gunships.
What the hell is going on in Canada? How can a Member of Parliament be banned from a country for being against war? This is the same Canada that used to have an honourable tradition of taking in war resisters ('deserters') from the US armed forces.
Shame on Canada. George intends to fight the ban.
Read his statement at the Respect Party website
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