Michael,
Your decision but as a factual matter, it has a more severe negative
impact on Balisage and its attendees than the current regime in Washington.
Taking a stand, at least for me, has always involved going in harm's
way, not remotely shaming it.
Hope you are at the start of a great week!
Patrick
On 01/29/2017 02:12 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
>> On 10 Jan 2017, at 23:42, B Tommie Usdin <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike —
>>
>> Balisage 2017 is coming, and I think it may be an especially interesting year for Saxonica. The pre-conference symposium will be about Up Translation or Up Transformation. I expect many of the talks to be about XSLT.
>>
>> Will you please consider sponsoring Balisage this year? And, as weird as the political situation is here, I would like to encourage you to think about coming this year;
>
> Thank you Tommie for the invitation. I would love to come to Balisage again. But I don't think this is the right time to be applying for a visa, and I don't think it's appropriate to sponsor a conference held in a country that will exclude people from attending on grounds of race or religion. Sorry, but I think one has to make a stand.
>
> Perhaps you can move back to Montreal in 2018?
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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