Banned from Canada for protesting U.S. war effort

This penalty against Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin is extremely harsh and has two key components: 1) it feels like the U.S. is strongly interfering in Canada, and 2) this never would have happened before 11/9/01 (September 11 for the U.S. audience).

Wright and Benjamin had been convicted in the United States of peaceful, non-violent protests against the war on Iraq, and Canada has banned them for that reasons.

This essay, written by Wright, explains this scenario in more detail.

Canada does have the right to ban people from their country, especially on criminal charges. Those with DUI convictions have a very tough time entering the country, understandably. But people arrested under questionable circumstances, especially these days, in anti-Iraq war protests, should get more of the benefit of the doubt.