Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the Government of India of assassinating a Canadian citizen. It’s not possible to infer anything less from the sum of Trudeau’s remarks in the House of Commons on Monday, and going by the response from the government of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi today, the damage to Indo-Canadian relations may be irreparable.
Western ministers and officials will be working hard to try to ensure the diplomatic row between Canada and India does not bleed into other international relationships.
The last thing the United States and other western powers want now is a row that divides them from India.
On the grand geopolitical chess board, India is a key player.
Not only is it a growing power – the most populous country in the world, the fifth-biggest economy. But it is also seen by the West as a potential bulwark against China.
Canada and India are friends, not foes. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, by countenancing the rising anti-India activities of extremist Sikh groups in Canada, has brought relations with New Delhi under increasing strain during his term in office. Now, with his statement in the House of Commons on Monday, he has created an unusual diplomatic crisis between two major democracies.
Why must Canada devote so many scarce resources to this> Hardeep Nijjar met CSIS every week before killing that Trudeau links to India: son
India has issued an advisory urging its citizens travelling to or living in Canada to “exercise utmost caution”.
The advisory comes a day after tensions escalated between the countries with each expelling a diplomat from the other side.
Canada said it was investigating “credible allegations” linking the Indian state with the killing of a Sikh separatist leader.
India strongly denied this, calling the allegations “absurd”.
#Candian PM doing all because of this pic.twitter.com/Q2zJ441DAj
— Pawan Shukla (@Shukla8175) September 19, 2023
h/t Mauser
The country’s Punjabi community has a history of gang and gun violence
Justin Trudeau has this week accused the Indian government of the murder of prominent Sikh leader and pro-Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, BC this past June. The accusations have further strained relations between Canada and India, with Ottawa expelling the Indian intelligence chief stationed in Canada, and India in turn asking a high-ranking Canadian diplomat to leave the country within the next few days.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not want to escalate tensions further with India, on a day when Canada’s allies showed signs they are unwilling to join Ottawa’s public condemnation of New Delhi for its alleged role in the gangland-style slaying of a prominent Canadian Sikh leader.
As he entered a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Mr. Trudeau sought to dial back his dramatic criticism of India after New Delhi ordered Canadian diplomat Olivier Sylvestre out of the country in a tit-for-tat response to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian foreign intelligence officer from its High Commission in Ottawa.
GUNTER: Trudeau tough with one, not the other
I won’t pretend to know the truth about Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh leader who was gunned down in June as he left his gurdwara in Surrey. B.C. after worship.
Was Nijjar just a refugee from India who had come to Canada in 1997 and started a successful plumbing business? Or was he, as the Indian government charges, a leader of the Khalistan Tiger Force who trained violent militants in the Lower Mainland for attacks in India.
The world knows Canada’s Liberal Government is a Beijing branch plant operation so it’s no surprise that Junior would attempt to disrupt India’s key position within the Asian counterweight to China’s imperialist dream.
Given Trudeau is a ChiCom dupe and Canada’s China Class is so deeply embedded in our society it’s understandable that no nation would side with Junior.
Any transcripts of conversations other nations may have with Trudeau are probably on Xi’s desk before Junior hangs up the phone.
Will Canadian Police again use violence to enforce political policy?
A reminder to all Canadian police and military personnel – considering Armored Vehicles in Toronto Tuesday Sept 19, 2023.
Your duty is not blind obedience to the ruling class.
You swore an oath. Your duty is… https://t.co/Ix9n1eZHM8
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) September 20, 2023
Remember this …
So, there goes Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy, the much-vaunted plan to counter an increasingly quarrelsome China by improving relations with democracies in the region like… India.
Not much is clear after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s stunning speech in the House of Commons that linked agents of the government of India with the June murder in B.C. of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
OTTAWA—A new political party is set to emerge out of the push for a more centrist approach to federal politics that began with last year’s Conservative leadership race, the Star has learned.
The new party — to be guided in the short term by former New Brunswick cabinet minister Dominic Cardy — will be announced Wednesday, after more than a year of deliberations and discussions over exactly what such an effort could bring to the political landscape.
Liberals with a bowel blockage comes to mind.
The House of Commons is back — and with it, a crisis no one saw coming. On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that “Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.” Trudeau then intoned, “Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.”
It sounds like Trudeau is working for China to me.
Weeks before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aired an explosive accusation that Indian officials may have been behind the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia, Ottawa asked its closest allies, including Washington, to publicly condemn the murder. But the overtures were rebuffed, underscoring the diplomatic balancing act facing the Biden administration and its allies as they work to court an Asian power seen as a crucial counterweight to China.
Junior is such a loser. A desperate call to the Star was made…
Ottawa’s allies must loudly condemn Indian attack on Canadian sovereignty
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre urges PM Trudeau to reveal evidence of India’s role in killing of Canadian Sikh leader
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday to provide Canadians with hard evidence that agents of the Indian government were behind the slaying of a prominent Sikh leader that has led to a deep chill in Indo-Canadian relations.
The Prime Minister announced Monday that Ottawa had credible intelligence that India carried out the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and it expelled India’s top foreign intelligence officer in the High Commission in Ottawa.
No wonder Junior looked like someone pissed in his cornflakes….
India read the riot act to the Canadian NSA during the G-20 summit
PM Justin Trudeau is playing vote bank politics in singling out India for interference in internal affairs of Canada. He just does not have a case.
Days after chief of proscribed Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down by unidentified men in Vancouver on June 18, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar went on record stating that rise of so-called Khalistan politics was driven by “vote bank politics” in Canada.
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s Liberals can no longer deny it. Pierre Poilievre, the fiery Conservative leader set on burning Justin Trudeau’s signature achievements to the ground, is the favorite to win the country’s next election.
Poilievre’s party has vaulted ahead in the polls by harnessing post-pandemic anxiety — high inflation, rising interest rates, and the runaway cost of home ownership in Canada. He fills hotel ballrooms and banquet halls with rowdy crowds, even during a summer season when most voters tend to tune out touring politicians.
A day after accusing the Indian government of playing a role in the brazen shooting of a Canadian Sikh leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he isn’t trying to “provoke” the South Asian country.
“We are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them,” Trudeau told reporters Tuesday, before a cabinet meeting.
What an idiot.
The heads of Canada’s five largest grocery chains have “agreed to work with” the federal government to stabilize food prices, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Monday.
Champagne and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland met with the heads of Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Costco and Walmart in Ottawa on Monday. Freeland stayed only for the first few minutes of the two-hour meeting.
“As you would expect, those are difficult discussions but much-needed discussions at a time that Canadians are feeling the high prices of groceries,” Champagne said after the meeting.
