An Ohio father has been crossing into Canada to see his five children for years without issue, but that changed last month when he said a border agent barred him indefinitely, citing a set of charges placed on him more than a decade ago.
After crossing the border without issue dozens of times in recent years, a man from the U.S. with a fiancee and toddler in Ontario says he was indefinitely barred from Canada last month after a border agent took issue with a set of charges placed on him more than a decade ago.
Since meeting Emily in 2018, Bailey says he’s crossed the Canada-U.S. border dozens of times a year and, when COVID-19 hit and he sold his business in 2020, those trips increased significantly. He said he doesn't understand what made the last crossing any different. After arriving at the Peace Bridge border crossing, he says he was flagged by a border services agent and told to report to customs, where he was asked “all the usual questions.”
When CTV News Toronto reached out to CBSA for further clarification on Bailey’s case, the agency said they couldn’t comment on individual cases under Canada’s Privacy Act. “I’ve been shooting guns my whole life,” he said. “In rural Ohio, it’s not like in Canada – you hear gunfire on any given summer day. People shoot their guns.”
After “about an hour of shooting the handgun,” Bailey said he packed it up, went back inside, and went to bed. Because of the case-by-case evaluation, sometimes individuals who are at risk of being deemed inadmissible due to past crimes are allowed in without issue, the lawyer explained. Often, those crossing the border won't be outright asked if they have a criminal history, Pelenur said -- it depends on the agent.
“[Once submitted], it can literally take years to process,” he said. “It can be a real problem for people.”“It’s a [permit] that allows people to enter Canada when they have a criminal inadmissibility, and they're not yet allowed to apply or obtain the criminal rehabilitation,” he explained.
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