Irish rap group Kneecap says it’s initiating legal action against Toronto MP Vince Gasparro, who said Canada would not allow them to enter the country.
Earlier on Friday, Toronto MP Vince Gasparro revealed the federal government had deemed Kneecap “ineligible” to come to Canada. The trio was scheduled to perform two shows in Toronto, and another two in Vancouver, in October.
“Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly,” Gasparro wrote on X Friday.
“The group have amplified political violence and publicly displayed support for terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” said Gasparro, who serves as the parliamentary secretary to the secretary of state for combatting crime.
Kneecap responded on Instagram with a letter addressed directly to Gasparro, calling his comments “wholly untrue and deeply malicious.”
“We have today instructed our lawyers to initiate legal action against you. We will be relentless in defending ourselves against baseless accusations to silence our opposition to a genocide being committed by Israel,” reads the letter.
“When we beat you in court, which we will, we will donate every cent to assist some of the thousands of child amputees in Gaza.”
I hope people remember that the problems in the US are not wholly unique and things that can’t happen in other countries. It’s another form of american exceptionalism to think that somehow Americans as a group of humans are worse than others. Look to the UK for proof of that. And look at what is happening in Australia and track it out to a longer period of time.
Edit: except for the guns obviously that is a pretty stupid thing here that other countries don’t have but it’s definitely not the sole problem.
“Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly,” Gasparro wrote on X Friday.
Yet you post on a fascist platform…
I hope Kneecap gets a favourable ruling.
Politicians are lying to appease some asshole?
Anyway, so when are they playing here? I’ll be sure to visit their concert, just because I fucking hate lying politicians
Fascist Canada.
