 When returning to Canada, Zündel claimed refugee status in hopes of preventing his deportation to Germany.This claim elicited public ridicule; Rex Murphy, a columnist for "The Globe and Mail" and a well-known commentator on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, wrote, "If Ernst Zündel is a refugee, Daffy Duck is Albert Einstein  ...Some propositions are so ludicrous that they are a betrayal of common sense and human dignity if allowed a moment's oxygen."