Indo-Canadian barred from boarding flight to US

Toronto: An Indo-Canadian, who was barred from boarding a flight from Edmonton in Canada to California last week, says he was made to feel like a terrorist.
Ganesh Sharma, owner of a convenience store in the Glenora locality of Edmonton, Alberta, was planning to attend the funeral of a childhood friend in California when he was stopped from boarding an Alaska Airlines flight last Friday morning at the Edmonton International Airport.
Sharma, 46, told the newspaper that even before he could go through the screening checkpoint with his valid Canadian passport, an officer from the US Department of Homeland Security stopped him from going any further.
He said that he might have been singled out because of the colour of his skin.
When contacted, Kelly Klundt, an official with the Department of Homeland Security told the Sun that she is prohibited from discussing individual cases for privacy reasons.
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