I always knew I liked Canadians!
Dateline Toronto: An American education professor, one of the founders of a radical 1960s group known as the Weather Underground, which was responsible for a number of bombings in the United States in the early 1970s, was turned back at the Canadian border last night.
Dr. William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a leader in educational reform, was scheduled to speak at the Centre for Urban Schooling at University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. But that appearance has now been temporarily cancelled.
"I don't know why I was turned back," Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago. "I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn't going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting ... If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn't possibly be a threat to Canada."
What do you think, folks? The Centre for Urban Schooling got a sudden case of good sense? If it were me, Bill, I'd let you in but not take you back! Other than not wanting to be seen as an act of aggression towards our friends to the North!
Hat tip Sister Toldjah
Cross Posted at Say Anything
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