Canada is well within its rights to ban Kneecap, but shouldn't: Selley

One of the more low-key bizarre sagas in recent Ottawa history continues, all but unaddressed by the players involved. Bizarre as it is, though, it’s in many ways a quintessential modern Liberal snafu — as if someone deliberately set out to achieve the worst outcome and got there early and under budget.

Two weeks ago, Toronto Liberal MP Vince Gasparro, the parliamentary secretary for combatting crime, announced that talentless Northern Irish rap outfit Kneecap had been banned from visiting Canada. Kneecap’s Liam Og O hAnnaidh has been alleged to be sympathetic to Hezbollah ( charges in the U.K. with respected to a Hezbollah flag were dropped; the Crown is appealing ) and is known for leading audience members in chants of “death to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)” — most famously