[citation needed] In Canada, Mugesera and his family arrived as refugees, but were quickly granted permanent resident status.
[7] Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, claims that Mugesera's 1992 speech gave necessary momentum to the anti-Tutsi hysteria that led to the genocide, saying that "[Mugesera] was one of the first to go in a major public speech and say, 'Look, our mistake in the past with the Tutsi minority has been allowing them to survive, has been allowing them to live.
Justice Robert Décary, writing for the Court, held that there was no evidence linking the 1992 speech with the genocide which occurred two years later.
[12] On January 23, 2012, a Quebec Superior Court judge rejected Léon Mugesera's bid to avoid deportation.
[14][15][16] On September 25, 2020, Rwanda's Court of Appeal[17] in Kigali ruled against Mugesera's claim that his life sentence should be set aside.
[20][21] In 2016, Rwanda's government had filed a declaration that it would no longer allow individual complaints to be heard by the African court.
Since Mugesera's complaint was filed within the year, it was held admissible, but Rwanda's government chose not to take part in the deliberations.