I think Black got a bad deal from a court system that is in serious need of revisiting its roots (my arguments are here). I don’t think it’s the greatest miscarriage of justice in the history of the universe, or anything like that, but I’m a little bit sad for him and most suspicions I’ve had about the reporting profession have been confirmed.
Anyhoo, Steve at ESR, Zolf and others saying the Canada should give Black back his citizenship. Sorry and respectfully dudes, I disagree. I’ve long been a proponent that citizenship should “mean something”, and that being true, dropping that citizenship likewise should mean something. No matter how vindictively that sorry little prick Chretien acted, Black made his own bed.