• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@m...>
• Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:12:55 +0000

> On 10 Jan 2017, at 23:42, B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@m...> 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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