um
welcome back
i'm very happy to be in canada
and my presence here proves that canada
remains a country governed by laws
not by here today gone tomorrow
politicians and their whims
and that justice counts in canada and
i'm very grateful to the honourable
judge mosley for demonstrating that what
message do you have for the conservative
government
well
you know
it's a dangerous thing
that canada has become so isolated in
the world
that it has
allowed itself to become
basically an embassy for the
most extreme israeli political line
mr netanyahu has almost no friends in
the world including in the white house
but he sure has friends here
in canada and not many people can't
quite understand
why
um there seems no reason why
canada which was so widely respected
even loved in the world not so very long
ago
it should so identify over identify
itself by anybody's standards even a
conservatives standards over identify
itself with
really very extreme israeli politicians
what message do you or or what message
will you deliver to people tomorrow then
about your experience
with what happened to you uh well first
i will talk about what happened to me
not just because i want to get off my
chest and but i do
this has been extremely
searing
uh
indeed
surreal experience for me to be sitting
for almost 25 years
in the british parliament whilst a
commonwealth g7 country is declaring you
to be a security risk and a terrorist
is
is searing
and it has affected my life in many ways
which i shall adam bray at the meeting
tomorrow but much much more importantly
is what it means for you
and what it means for you as the
honorable judge said in his 60-page
judicial caning
of
jason kinney
is that
canada's laws
and anti-terrorism as a rubric
is being used
to
suppress legitimate political debate
here in the country
and that's important in itself
if you believe in democratic values but
it's also important arguably more
important in that you will reach flawed
conclusions as a country
if you don't hear all the legitimate
points of view
argued out in public in proper debate
and that's exactly what's happened
canada has reached a deeply flawed set
of foreign policy positions
and partly because it has set out to
criminalize
views which are widely shared in the
country and around the world and must be
heard i guess this not going to shut you
up then is it
no i mean the good thing is
that the as any bookseller could have
told them for free
the book you try to ban always ends up
on the best seller list
and i expect that the audience for what
i have to say
tomorrow and indeed through the
conduit of the media
will be far far larger than it ever
would have been if mr kenny hadn't
undertaken this foolish thing but he's
cost the canadian taxpayer a pretty
penny and i don't suppose pennies are
that plentiful nowadays here or anywhere
else
uh he's damaged canada's reputation as i
said at the press conference the other
day i don't know if it's because he's a
fool or a nave
i'm not sure which would be worse but i
am sure that canada deserves better than
that are you going after them yes i will
have a meeting with my
legal team barbara jackman i'm seeking
redress
for the damages that has been uh done
and
so this is not a final
round between me and
mr kenny
well i'll be talking to my legal team
about joshua avenues
exist
but
indeed one of them is behind me who may
very well want to
want to have a say on that
but one thing's for sure
i
have been defamed in a way
which
it's scarcely possible to exaggerate
i mean for a high-profile politician to
be
announced to the world as a terrorist
and a security threat
placed my life in danger i'm not being
melodramatic
there are crazy people
in the world
who if i really were the person jason
kenny painted me as
might have thought themselves fully
justified in
putting a bullet in me
and so
my life has been quite severely affected
in many ways as i say i shall run
through them
at the meeting tomorrow
and i
i'm seeking redress for that one way or
the other whether through defamation or
through some other form
of redress so
although mr kenny has already cost you
all a pretty penny it may very well turn
out to be
pretty more pennies too
well the officers were very courteous
uh but uh
the interview ranged rather
rather further than a normal uh
immigration
interview
would
they were interested in
my political analysis of many
international political situations which
was flattering but time consuming
and i was aware that uh there were
people outside waiting to uh hear me but
uh they were uh i i couldn't fault them
at all for courtesy and uh manners and
uh good old canadian efficiency so uh no
complaints
are you aware of the the work that
canadians have done to bring you back
not only am i aware of it i'm filled
with
gratitude and admiration for the
legal team for the
political team
for all those who have struggled for 18
months
to get me back into the country
and
it's a great tribute to them that they
were not intimidated they were not
terrorized
into believing
that they were somehow
on the side of a
a terrorist or a security threat
my
broader feeling though
is that
this visit will be at least tacitly
welcomed by far wider
sectors of canadian society than just
people who support me
because i think there is a feeling in
canada i get the impression that there
is a feeling in canada that there's
something not quite right
about
continually banning
and excluding people
and thus attempting to push
views which are against the views of the
government here into the margins to
criminalize them to marginalize them i
think most canadians whether they agree
with my political views or not just
instinctively know that that is wrong
and not a good thing
not a good place to be
so thank you to all the campaigners
any more questions
what do you think about
the canadian media that was
delayed in responding to certain
documents
you know i i uh
i didn't know whether to laugh
or cry
when i read on my google alert all these
headlines popping up from right-wing
canadian newspapers
saying galloway has lost
in the court
i must be charitable i suppose and say
they hadn't read the judgment
but if i've lost how come i'm standing
here
i'm standing here because i won
and i won
i won
i'm standing here because i won
and i won because canada still is a
country governed by laws that has a
judiciary
that will not be bullied or cowed
or terrorized
into rubber stamping
the decisions
the caprice the whim
of here today and gone tomorrow
politicians and i must tell you you're
very lucky to have that
not many countries in the world have
such a judiciary we do and you do
and that's maybe one of the things that
makes us close
any others
sorry um
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