"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada"
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The specificity matters. “Contents of the building” is antiseptic and normalizing, a careful avoidance of what those contents were and why they might be considered high-risk. It turns reputational risk into actuarial risk. “Anywhere in Canada” scales the complaint from an isolated refusal to a national indictment, inviting conspiracy-adjacent conclusions without ever stating one. The word “unfortunate” is a softener that implies he’s being reasonable; it’s also a cue that the real outrage is meant to be inferred.
Contextually, Zundel is notorious for Holocaust denial and related propaganda work, and he frequently positioned institutional pushback as proof of persecution rather than consequence. Insurance, here, becomes a proxy battlefield: a private market decision recast as censorship, economic isolation recast as martyrdom. The intent isn’t to discuss underwriting; it’s to launder extremist self-presentation through the credibility of everyday administrative complaint.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zundel, Ernst. (2026, January 17). The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-unfortunate-thing-is-for-the-contents-of-the-59348/
Chicago Style
Zundel, Ernst. "The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-unfortunate-thing-is-for-the-contents-of-the-59348/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-unfortunate-thing-is-for-the-contents-of-the-59348/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.


