Globe and Mail, Monday, May 20, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A14
Selwyn Pieters, who forced Canada Customs to hire an antiracism expert and collect race-based statistics on those chosen for extra border searches, won a community-service award on the weekend from the Association of Black Law Enforcers.
Mr. Pieters launched a hearing at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal after a student Customs officer tried to search his bags two years ago as he returned by train from a weekend in New York.
Mr. Pieters, a federal government employee and law student, believed he
had been picked for extra checking at the border because he is black.
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