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Customs Officer and Toronto Pearson Airport

Toronto Pearson Airport: "Where did you go? What did you do?" came the Canadian customs query in the usual bored monotone. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "Uh-huh," said the customs officer, who then went for the jugular. "Did you bring any cigarettes or alcohol back with you?" Dillon Hillier can't help but laugh at the reaction as he surrendered his passport at Toronto Pearson Airport, the dust of the world most watched conflict still fresh on his boots. "I was in Iraq. Fighting with the Kurds," answered the bluntly truthful Hillier, 26, a former Canadian soldier with an unusual taste quite obviously for action. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.