At one point during Parvkar Singh Dulai's six-year legal battle to get off Canada's no-fly list, a federal court judge asked the B.C. man why he wouldn't simply meet with Indian officials to say, "I'm not a terrorist."

Dulai, an outspoken champion of an independent Sikh homeland, claimed an "elected Canadian official" had told him a sit-down with India's national security advisor at the country's consulate in Vancouver could make all his troubles go away.

It was a prospect Dulai — who was born an…