In 1952 Paul Robeson, an African-American hero, was barred from entering into Canada to speak to union workers in Vancouver, so he addressed 40 000 assembled workers on the Canadian-US border via a radio microphone. More then fifty years later Canada's censorship regulators have not gotten any wiser and have tried to silence British MP George Galloway, who will use the medium of a video-link hookup to address the masses in four Canadian cities.