As a city of tents sprang up outside India’s capital city New Delhi in December 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waded into a debate around protests taking place halfway across the world.
From Ottawa, he promised that Canada would “always stand up” for the right to peacefully protest.
“We believe in the importance of dialogue and that’s why we have reached out through multiple means directly to the Indian authorities to highlight our concerns,” he said.
It may be months, if ever, before Ottawa gets to the bottom of who was responsible for the gangland-style murder of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Given that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said there is “credible” intelligence that India played a role in the slaying, it’s hard to imagine any thorough investigation taking place that doesn’t include the full co-operation of the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India can ban Junior. That’s a win.
A row between Canada and India over the murder of a Sikh separatist has stoked talk of political friction among some Sikhs and Hindus in the diaspora, though others say it’s overblown.
After Mr Trudeau’s public accusation on Monday that India may have been behind the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil, a clip surfaced on social media showing the head of a US-based Sikh separatist group calling for Hindu Canadians to return to India.
“Indo-Canadian Hindus, you have repudiated your allegiance to Canada and the Canadian constitution,” said Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, head of Sikhs for Justice, in a video that was reportedly filmed on 12 September.
“Your destination is India. Leave Canada. Go to India,” he said.
Experts say if India was behind Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death it would signal radical change in its foreign intelligence methods
The sun was setting on a June evening as Hardeep Singh Nijjar walked across the car park of the gurdwara. Nijjar’s day job was as a plumber but this gurdwara, located in the city of Surrey, in Canada’s British Columbia province, was where he dedicated most of his energy. That day he had made an impassioned speech about the fight for an independent, safe state for Sikhs.
But as he reached his pickup truck, two heavy-set, masked gunmen lay in wait. Shots rang out across the car park and Nijjar, killed instantly, crumpled to the ground as the suspects fled – first on foot and then in a getaway car.
In his second address to a joint session of Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Canada for its financial, political and military aid to his embattled country.
Here are five key moments from his speech on Friday.
With the fall sitting of Parliament now underway, the latest Nanos ballot tracking(opens in a new tab) shows the federal Conservatives continue to hold onto the lead they’ve had all summer while the Liberals remain stalled, and the NDP has managed to gain a bit of steam in third place.
“The Conservatives are up six points. (Poilievre is) six points up on the Preferred Prime Minister tracking. The Liberals are back on their heels,” said Nanos. While the Conservative advantage on the ballot question has lessened slightly since Aug. 4 when they were nine points ahead of the Liberals, “still, six points is enough to win an election.”
… By 2017, when I worked in government, India did not take Mr. Trudeau or Canada seriously. They viewed Canada as a bit player in world affairs, America’s loud-mouthed neighbour. In Ottawa, at least in my experience, officials did not respect India, either – to our peril. Canada’s political establishment is old and white, and infused with an ignorant Eurocentrism that still affects foreign policy priorities. Western Europe and the United States were our focus, and some ministers could hardly see beyond London or Berlin. There’s a reason why, along with India, relations with China, with Latin American countries, with much of Africa have deteriorated. It was a great abdication of our long-term priorities, given where we have ended up.
Before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, his father and Canada’s 15th PM.
With his embracing of the Khalistani elements in Canada, Justin Trudeau ensured that ties with India nosedived. The trigger for the plunging relations was his unsubstantiated claims that India was behind the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
And before Justin Trudeau’s visit to India, first in 2018 and then in 2023 for the G20 Summit, came his father’s.
As Canadians wait to learn more about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s explosive reveal of “credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen,” questions continue to compound. The clearest thing right now is we need to know more about Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder and, based on how peer governments handled similar cases, there’s solid precedent for transparency about the evidence.
The Canadian government has so far not responded to Taiwan’s invitation to share its experience battling Beijing’s information and interference activities, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to Canada, Ho-Jen Tseng, told a House of Commons committee.
Hours after Justin Trudeau falsely accused the Indian government of killing a Khalistani terrorist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil, his countrymen slammed him on social media for hurting ties with India.
Journalist Daniel Bordman was shocked at the shenanigans of the Canadian Prime Minister and his decision to expel a top Indian diplomat from the country.
Related: FIRST READING: How Indian media is portraying Canada through all this (not well)
They haven’t called Canada a state sponsor of terror, but it’s close
Just an FYI – Earlier I posted that CBC’s usual reliable sources like Katie Telford are claiming that “Canada has Indian diplomats’ communications in bombshell murder probe: sources”
It’s got some laughable clangers like this one: “Canadian sources say that, when pressed behind closed doors, no Indian official has denied the bombshell allegation at the core of this case — that there is evidence to suggest Indian government involvement in the assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.”
CBC ran with the Russia Collusion hoax for years so you know they have excellent “sources.”
I don’t doubt India did OFF Nijjar, and they don’t care what Junior thinks about it.
Junior has to answer why Canada became a haven for the terrorists he obviously favours.
Expelling foreign diplomats from a host country is a first and serious step in expressing a government’s displeasure with another, but the impacts of escalating tension could eventually trickle down to their people, experts say.
After the tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats from Ottawa and New Delhi this week, India on Wednesday warned its citizens against travelling to Canada and cautioned Indian international students be vigilant due to “growing anti-India activities” and “hate crimes and criminal violence” in this country.
Junior will get his butt kicked. It appears our delusional PM hoped to embarrass Modi for maximum deflection from domestic woes and establish himself as some sort of international heavy weight.
He’ll soon find himself longing for the days when gender language was all he cared about.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to offer more evidence to support his startling allegation that the Indian government was behind the murder of a Canadian, but said the decision to come forward was not taken lightly.
Trudeau was at the United Nations on Wednesday and Thursday, where he gave speeches on climate change and the war in Ukraine. On Monday, he stood in the House of Commons and said Canada had “credible allegations,” that Indian government agents were involved in the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh community leader in Surrey, B.C.
In 2018, Jihad Watch ran the headline: Trudeau Exposed: A Leader Who Embraces Islamic Supremacists and Khalistani Terrorists
