A couple kisses while holding their son as they pose for a portrait during Sao Paulo Fashion Week November 3, 2014.REUTERS/Nacho Doce
IN PHOTO: A couple kisses while holding their son as they pose for a portrait during Sao Paulo Fashion Week November 3, 2014.REUTERS/Nacho Doce REUTERS/Nacho Doce

Recently booted out by Australia, Julien Blanc, a self-described "executive dating coach," is likewise being sought to be banned in Canada. Canadians definitely don't buy the idea that one has to choke a woman to get a date, or more precisely perhaps to get laid.

Blanc is known for giving seminars that teach men how to get themselves a date. But it isn't just usual teaching techniques. Blanc, along with the company he works for, Real Social Dynamics, teach men how to "game" their "targets" using physical and emotional abuse. His seminars apparently are a hit in other countries. Reports said men of other nationalities paid thousands to attend his "boot camps." Blanc even made a hashtag so sell his idea of propositioning women in chokeholds, the "#ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld."

But Canada wants nothing of it. Canadians had called on Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander to prevent Blanc from coming here, specifically to refrain from issuing a visa to the notorious 'pick-up artist.' Blanc is scheduled to hold workshops next year in Canada.

Journalist Kate Wheeler of What She Said started a petition on Change.org against Blanc and his comments caught on video and posted online regarding assaulting women. Blanc's seminars specifically teach men to choke women, grab their heads and then push them toward his groin. Such techniques were immediately seen as a promotion of abuse towards women. Thus, the hashtag #takedownjulienblanc was instantly born on Twitter. "Julien Blanc is sexually assaulting women and then teaching rooms full of men to do the same. He should be arrested," a Twitter user wrote.

The good news is, Alexander noticed the petition as well as the hashtag outpour. He has committed to look at all options and will consider "using every tool at our disposal to protect the rule of law on Canadian soil."

But even before actually getting a taste of the ban, RSD had taken from its website the dates of Blanc's Canadian skeds, according to a tweet by What She Said! "He is, in essence, making a living off of misogyny, racism, abuse, and harassment, and teaching techniques on how to do it and how to get away with it," the protest at Change.org petition read.

A video of Blanc below.

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Breaking!- Japan & Canada removed from RSD Tour Dates #KeepJulienBlancOutofCanada #TakeDownJulienBlanc #scared Keep going UK.

— What She Said! (@WhatSheSaid167) November 11, 2014