Canada's MP Dan McTeague - No Entry For 50 Cent

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50_Cent_yardflex.jpgU.S. rapper 50 Cent should not be allowed to bring his "Massacre Tour" to Canada, says Toronto MP Dan McTeague.

On Tuesday, McTeague asked Immigration Minister Joe Volpe to deny the artist entry for an upcoming Canadian tour, which is scheduled to stop in Halifax on Dec. 14.

McTeague says 50 Cent promotes gun violence, a message he feels Torontonians in particular don't need to hear. A record 48 people have been shot to death in that city so far this year.

50 Cent, who was born Curtis Jackson in Queen's, N.Y., has a criminal record and would need a ministerial permit to enter Canada.

"I think it's time we send a message of our own to those who glorify violence that their gratuitous violence and movies are not welcome in our country," McTeague said.

"We need to do a better job at protecting Canadians from people whose message runs counter to all of our efforts of trying to curb gun violence."

50 Cent recently made his movie debut in Get Rich or Die Tryin', a violent semi-autobiographical street drama.

A spokesperson for the immigration minister says permits allowing those with criminal records to enter Canada are issued regularly.

50 Cent's tour is scheduled to stop in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax and Saint John, N.B.

  • f**king let 50 cent come to canada u b*tch a*s ho

  • piusd lupapa

    oyaaa au abdul lazima tuwakilishe chama g unit ghetto wazee wa kwenda less na pesa

  • baby cool

    yo man i want you to remember me man i am a nigger man i am black man dog

  • Balvin Dulston

    Listen.

    What makes us difrent from machines, trees and so many other elements surrounding us. The power of choice!!!

    When you take that from someone you are taking away the power god blessed us with. Not Because you dont like something that means you should make it wrong or even worst band or put restrictions on it. Example, "I dont like gays and i love g*ns", should you be allowed to tell me to shut up, arrest and charge me or invent a law that restricts me from saying that in public? NO! So why tell an artist what, when or where to perform his art.

    I was born in flankers (as ghetto as it gets) and my family is politically oriented so i know enough to tell you that an artist cant influence crime in our country like the poverty our fellow men are facing.

    Our artists only express what they see and hear just like picasso and divinchi People like these help us to open our minds eyes.

    They are like the media for some, Would you band all news stations that educate us on all the things wether good or bad that are happening aroung the world? So why band these artist or tell them what to say.

    Just like the news, if you dont want to watch it you change the channel or turn off the tv.

    I think artist should be allowed the same privilage to be chosen or not. "You dont like the man song" dont buy his cd and no go his stage show.

    What about the many 50cent fans who can make up their own minds and dont want others thinking for them.

    If a man kills another man and blame a recording artist hes only doing what any criminal would, "try to save his own ass" .



    Here is the gun isseue in Jamaica land we love. Check the statistics of countries that dont have such tight regulations on getting a gun permit. They have little or no shooting crimes. If everyone had a lisened fire arms or it was easier to get a permit and penalties got more intense (death penalty) eg. More people could be held responcible for their actions and a criminal would think twice about raiding a house knowiny the owner might have a gun And if caught he would get penalized to he highest degree.

    Next pay close to our young men and stop stigmatise di ghetto youths in school. Evry student Should be treated as equals. I use to attend a prominent high school in Montego Bay where a vice principal told me strait to my face that shes not going to stop until she expells all the "dutty flanker boy dem from this school".

    You know its times like these you can laugh and say look at me now.

    Can you emagine if the creative juices of some of societies great men that came from the ghetto are making a significantly positive impact on society (Gordon Bush Stuwart, Robert Marley, Jimmy Clif and the list goes onn) got pressured out of school by society and directed their minds energy to crime.

    Where would jamaica and the world be. Now emagine all these criminals out there, what if they were businesmen politicians and good citisens if only given a chance jamaica coul be a better place but guess what we will never know never know. give each man a chance to be something great.

    From what i learned from the arts, art reflects life. from every artwork you can tell what was happening in that era by analizing what the artist is trying to express.

  • gazza

    50 cunts mad let him GGG-UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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