According to Civic Research Associates, Icke's speaking engagements can draw a substantial audience in Canada, with his organizers claiming as numberless as 1000 people attending uncommon in Vancouver. During an October 1999 speaking tour there, he received a pecking order ovation from students after a four-hour speech at the University of Toronto, while his books were removed from the shelves of Indigo Books across Ontario after protests from the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Canadian human rights lawyer Richard Warman gave an interview to British journalist Jon Ronson for a documentary on Icke, during which Warman says he helped scupper disclosure interviews and book signings Icke had set up for himself in Canada in 2000