Thousands of young boys and girls, including scores from Canada, are set to converge on Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. on New Year’s Day to watch their heroes play in the latest installment of the NHL’s Winter Classic.
Among those lucky enough to go is six-year-old Syed Adam Ahmed, alongside dad Sulemaan Ahmed from Markham, Ont.
But the father and son, who goes by his middle name, Adam, took longer to get to the game than most did who were headed from Pearson International to Logan in Boston. That’s because Adam is on the Canadian government’s security risk list, called the DHP, or Deemed-High-Profile list of potential threats to public safety.
Both were held up at Pearson on route to the game after Adam’s name once again surfaced on Air Canada’s system as the pair checked in for their flight. How the boy got on the secretive list is a mystery perhaps only the Department of Public Safety, the federal ministry which oversees the classified document, knows.
On a 2011 family vacation to Mexico, the Ahmeds had their passports taken by Mexican officials only to have them returned half an hour later with little explanation. “They wouldn’t give us any answers – we were panicky,” Cajee said. Cont.
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