His Lordship wants to come home to... Canada?

In case you're a Canadian, you likely know that Conrad Black has got bail and wants to come to Canada. He wants to come home apparently. Whose home? His Lordship surrendered his Canadian citizenship in order to become Baron Black of Crossharbour. While I disagree with the then Canadian government's stance on Canadians being honoured by other countries, I find it quite amusing that Lord Black wants to come back to Canada after saying such lovely things about us as

a plain vanilla place or, to paraphrase our distinguished travel writer, Jan Morris, “a good second prize in the Lottario of life”.

More haughty wisdom from his Lordship can be found on this blog post.

I say we let him in. We're better than that. But your Lordship (for you are indeed a Lord in this country too), if you say such silly things about us... we are not going to be very keen to see you around here and you might just be the recipient of a nice pie in the face.

What do you guys think of this whole affair?

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