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He came to Canada from India as a 15-year-old in 1998. He is married and works in the Lower Mainland.

But Hardeep Singh Brar is facing possible deportation to the country of his birth because of a U.S. drug conspiracy conviction.

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The Federal Court of Canada has rejected Brar’s bid to avoid a deportation hearing on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

Brar, who had permanent residence status in Canada, ran into trouble after agreeing to drive a rental car into Washington state in April 2009 to be used by drug couriers.

He travelled to an Econolodge hotel in Bellingham, where he met a man who was holding 15 kilograms of cocaine to be transported back to Canada by others.

U.S. court documents say the man in the motel was co-operating with police who were hiding in the bathroom as Brar was told to “check the drugs out and make sure they were all there.”

The B.C. man was arrested and later pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. In January 2010, he was sentenced to two years in jail.