DECISION ON THE REASONABLENESS OF THE CERTIFICATE
INTRODUCTION
[1] On May 1, 2003, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Solicitor General of Canada (the Ministers) signed a certificate stating that Ernst Zündel, a permanent resident of Canada, is inadmissible on grounds of security, specifically, that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Zündel is inadmissible pursuant to sections 33, 34(1)(c), (d), (e) and (f) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c.27 (Immigration Act or IRPA).
May be. I am not a Zundel supporter. However, this is very strange. Not fifteen minutes ago I was reading the Wikipedia article on Zundel and read a paragraph that stated essentially that (paraphrased a bit, but pretty accurate to what I recall reading)
". . . After an 11 month trial, Zundel's Canadian Citizens ship had been revoked by Justice (?) as having been fradulently obtained . . ." and continued that ". . . his permanent resident status had been forfeited by his prolonged absence from the country."
After I read your comment, I returned to Widipedia to copy the quotation and post it here. I was shocked. That paragraph, has now been changed to read:
"Despite having lived in Canada for over forty years prior to moving to the United States, Zündel had never been able to obtain Canadian citizenship. Applications for citizenship were rejected by the government in 1966 and again in 1994 for reasons that have never been publicly disclosed.[1] So, upon his return to Canada, he had no status in the country as he was not a citizen and as his landed immmigrant status had been forfeited by his prolonged absence from the country."
Eerie... Other major changes, additions and deletions, were made in the Wikipedia article in that short time.
Which was the accurate information? I have no idea. Zundel claimed he had Canadian Citizenship and even served as a CO in the Canadian military in the 60s. My understanding is that the Canadian government revoked his Citizenship and that is what the article said... before being revised, almost literally before my eyes. In that it can be edited by both supporters and opponents, it is had to know.
Late addition: I just found a link to the "Zundelsite" where I found this "After more than four decades in Canada, including a failed effort to acquire Canadian citizenship, he moved to the United States , where in January 2000 he married Ingrid Rimland." So it looks like that is the truth. The other is propaganda. Thanks, Free me.
I am still concerned about the issues of Free Speech... To quote a saying attributed to Voltaire (that he didn't say, it was actually said by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre in a 1906 book "The Friends of Voltaire") "I disapprove of what you say, but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it."
Then I will ridicule Zundel's idiotic opinions to death.