Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez says Air Canada was right to apologize to a British MP who alleges he was subjected to Islamophobic screening by the airline and Canadian border officials on a recent diplomatic trip to Canada.
Yasin's fellow Labour MP rose in the British House this week to say that Yasin was stopped “because his name is Mohammad,” and that the incident was “racist and Islamophobic nature.”would not say why Yasin was questioned, only that he was designated for extra screening before his flight and that theThe British high commission in Ottawa says it has raised concerns about Yasin's experience with the federal government.
House of Commons of delaying a British MP from boarding a flight “because his name is Mohammad.
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