Galloway begins Canadian lecture tour via live video link from N.Y.

British MP challenges Canada's immigration minister to 'debate me like a man'

British MP George Galloway's speech was broadcast live from New York to the Metropolitan United Church in Toronto on Monday. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)British MP George Galloway is being forced to address Canadian audiences by video link this week after a federal judge upheld a government ban that denied him entry to Canada because of his support of Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Federal Court Judge Luc Martineau said he wasn't satisfied that the necessary conditions had been met to grant Galloway an emergency injunction that would suspend the ban so he could appear at a series of scheduled lectures, including a public forum in Toronto on Monday night titled Resisting War from Gaza to Kandahar.