Marie-Claude Chiasson, a Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman, said Wednesday she could not speak to specific cases. In the context of a rise in violent and deadly anti-Semitism in Europe, professional anti-Semitic agitator Dieudonne is not welcome in Quebec or Canada. “Admissibility to Canada is not a right but a privilege,” Rabbi Reuben Poupko, the centre’s co-chair, said in a statement. “In the context of a rise in violent and deadly anti-Semitism in Europe, professional anti-Semitic agitator Dieudonne is not welcome in Quebec or Canada tomorrow any more than he was today,” Poupko said. “Dieudonné forfeited this privilege with his numerous criminal convictions for hate speech, incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism.

Source: National Post May 11, 2016 17:11 UTC