"I'm coming to get you with my arguments, Mr. Kenney," George Galloway said via Skype from London on Wednesday, referring to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney
"I'm going to establish either that you're a fool or that you're a knave -- in any case, that the people of Canada deserve better than you."
Reaction from Kenney wasn't immediately available.
Galloway, a former British MP, says he will arrive in Canada on Saturday to continue a speaking tour scuttled in 2009. He will appear at a rally at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, 427 Bloor Street in downtown Toronto, on Sunday, Oct. 3 at 3 p.m.
He was scheduled to give a series of speeches in Canada last year, but cancelled his tour after the government threatened to deny him entry to the country on the basis that he supported terrorism.
The Canada Border Services Agency said they would not grant him access because he provided financial support to Hamas, which Canada considers a terrorist organization.
Galloway had been part of a caravan that had delivered humanitarian aid – including ambulances and medical supplies -- to Gaza following an Israeli military incursion there. He also gave a $45,000 donation to Hamas.
Galloway has said he gave the humanitarian aid to Hamas to distribute because it’s the ruling government in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier this week, a Federal Court judge decided Galloway was dissuaded from coming to Canada by the politically motivated actions of a senior aide to Kenney.
At the time, Kenney said publicly: "I believe folks that are supporting and promoting and helping terrorist organizations are not needed to visit Canada." Documents showed the minister's office was opposed to overruling the CBSA.
Justice Richard Mosley found the decision was made because the government did not agree with Galloway's political views, not because he posed a threat to the country.
But he dismissed a request for judicial review because Galloway never actually attempted to enter the country.
"In the absence of such evidence, I find that there was no legally reviewable decision to bar Mr. Galloway from Canada and that this application must be dismissed," wrote Mosley.
"I am not now, nor have I ever been, a terrorist or a security threat to Canada or anywhere else," Galloway said.
Galloway, who lost his seat in the British Parliament last spring, eventually addressed a Canadian audience via a video link from New York City.
James Clarke, of the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, said supporters are thrilled they will finally get to see the politician in person.
"Our fight in the Federal Court has been a long one, but well worth the wait," Clarke said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Following the Court's decision, we are hopeful that the government will no longer attempt to ban critics of its foreign policy, and that Galloway can finally meet in person the many people in Canada waiting to see him for the last 18 months."
The CBSA could still deny Galloway entry, but Galloway said he hoped the "judicial caning" would give them pause. The CBSA told The Canadian Press that a decision will be made "if and when" Galloway arrives.
Galloway, who spoke in Canada in 2006, is a controversial figure.
His opposition to the Iraq war got him kicked out of the British Labour Party in 2003, but he won re-election in 2005 running under the banner of his Respect party.
In 2007, the British Parliament's lower house suspended him for 18 days based on allegations he had concealed his dealings with the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq with respect to a charity he had established.
With files from The Canadian Press
