...so I guess the freedoms guaranteed in it - like expression - aren't guaranteed for visiting UK citizens.
H/t Kady O'Malley
Update: Just realized...do I need to explain my problem with this? It's all well and good for anyone to disagree with Galloway, including a government or government spokesperson. But to deny somebody entry to Canada just because of his point of view - not because he's dangerous, at least not in any way other than to the government's position on Afghanistan - is sliding toward the wrong side of the democracy/dictatorship split. Don't we have soldiers, aid workers and government mentors in Afghanistan to give women the right to have a voice there? Aren't we in that country to get rid of a horrific group of people that, when they were in power, BEAT people for having opinions or acting in ways that countered their very specific, strict set of beliefs?
It's incredibly hypocrisy to deny a visiting speaker entry to Canada simply because he is opposed to the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
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