If Bills running back Marshawn Lynch ultimately is convicted of (or pleads guilty to) leaving the scene of an accident, he might not be able to join his teammates for any of the games that the team plays in Canada.

In theory.

Canada has a pet peeve about letting folks into the country who have been in trouble with the law elsewhere.  That dynamic has become more pronounced lately.

“The bottom line is, when someone has criminal convictions in the [United States], we look to see how that conviction would apply to our laws in Canada,” Madona Mokbel, a spokeswoman for Citizenship & Immigration Canada, told the Buffalo News.  “There are guidelines, but we decide these issues on a case by case basis.”

In this case, as the Bills are in what many believe to be the early stages of what could be an extensive presence in Canada, Lynch surely would be allowed to play football once or twice a year in Toronto.

The only potential glitch in this regard is the local belief held by some powerful people that permitting NFL games to be played in Toronto will kill the CFL.  If those folks have more juice in the immigration office than do those who want to see the Bills become a semi-permanent fixture in Canada, perhaps Lynch and any other players with criminal backgrounds will have to stay home when the time comes to travel to Toronto.

Meanwhile, Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark thinks that Lynch could be responsible for re-setting to “00″ our “Days Without An Arrest” meter.

“I would not be at all surprised if he is charged early next week with a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an injury accident,” Clark said.