Bedford MP Mohammad Yasin faces 'racist and Islamophobic' questioning at airport

An MP was stopped from boarding a flight to Canada “because his name was Mohammad”, Parliament has heard.

Air Canada has apologised to Mr Yasin over "any inconvenience or upset this situation may have created" and the high commissioner in Ottawa who was "amazed" at what happened and raised it at Canadian government. Speaking outside the chamber after Mr Betts raised the "serious incident", Mr Yasin said: "It was stressful and humiliating to be singled out in such an aggressive way by immigration control, especially when travelling in a group as a representative of the British Parliament on long-arranged committee business.

Mr Betts added: "He has received apologies from the parliamentary secretary to the Canadian minister for immigration and Air Canada, however, given the racist and Islamophobic nature of these challenges, I believe that it is worth writing to the Canadian high commissioner."Because he was an MP he was allowed on his flight. If, however, he had been one of our constituents who had been so challenged, he might have been refused.

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