Hamilton mayor warning venues about anti-immigration conference in city
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OTTAWA — An Austrian man who has been permanently banned from the United Kingdom for promoting extremist narratives said this week he hopes Canada won’t deny him entry ahead of a conference he is to speak at in Hamilton this month.
Martin Sellner is being marketed as a keynote speaker for an Aug. 29 conference of the Dominion Society, which advocates for “remigration,” the mass deportation of immigrants.
Sellner was permanently banned in 2019 from entering the U.K. on security grounds. A government letter, which was publicized by Sellner’s organization, said he posed a serious threat to the country’s aim to counter extremism, according to a report in The Guardian.
Sellner’s U.S. travel permit was also cancelled in 2019 after it was found the gunman in the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand donated about $1,500 euros to Sellner. The Christchurch shooter was convicted of killing 51 people and the attempted murder of 40 more people in the March 2019 terrorist attack.
