Dieudonne and Moving to Quebec City

Canadian border agents: Dieudonne is scheduled to arrive in the city Tuesday for a series of 10 sold-out shows before moving to Quebec City and Trois-Rivieres, according to CTV. While it is still unclear if Canadian border agents will let him into the country because of his legal troubles, Dieudonne reputation certainly precedes him. Dieudonne M'bala M'bala -- known internationally as Dieudonne -- has been charged numerous times in France for violating anti-Semitism and hate-speech laws, prompting Jewish groups and Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre to state publicly he is not welcome. He remains popular in France and around the world; his official Facebook page has more than one million likes. On Monday, federal Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said she wouldn't go to his show, but stopped short of saying he shouldn't be allowed into Canada. "It up to to make a decision based on his past," said Joly, who represents a Montreal riding. "It goes without saying that discriminatory comments will not be tolerated." Michelle Rempel, the Conservative immigration critic, said Dieudonne should be denied entry to Canada. "His messages go completely against the Canadian values of religious freedom, tolerance and pluralism," Rempel said in a statement. His detractors call him a racist and an anti-Semite, while his fans say they appreciate his defiance of authority and his comic routines that regularly target what he calls the hypocrisy and discriminatory policies of the French political elite. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.