Brandon Nolan, son of NHL coach Ted Nolan, was refused entry into Canada this past week at the Thousand Islands Bridge near Kingston, reportedly because his native status card was rejected as a valid form of government identification.
Nolan, a member of Garden River First Nation who recently signed with Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League, claims that Canadian border agents held him up for almost two hours.
He was driving his father's BMW and says he was told he must pay duty on it.
Nolan also says he was subjected to various comments mocking his First Nations background,
He's expressed concern to the Assembly of First Nations and retained Toronto lawyer Calvin Barry to pursue the issue.
After he was turned back at the border by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), baffled U.S. border agents told Nolan that his status card was indeed a valid form of identification and they urged him to try again.
Nolan only got back into Canada after a phone call placed to a family friend who works with CBSA.
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