Polish man's visit a nightmare

Winnipeg kin kept in dark as Immigration held him in jail

COMING to Canada for the first time to visit family and see the Rockies turned into a nightmare for a 54-year-old Polish man and his relatives in Winnipeg who were waiting for him.

And it was only this week - five months after the ordeal began - that he finally got his passport back following a hearing in Winnipeg.

When Henryk Brzezinski's flight from Warsaw landed in Toronto in the spring, immigration officials detained him for 10 days.

"They put handcuffs on him at the airport and took him to jail," said his sister-in-law, Miroslawa Mikolowski, in Winnipeg.