Causing an international incident with India over allegations the Narendra Modi government is behind the murder of a Canadian citizen could be exactly the point. For Justin Trudeau, seeking justice and affirming sovereignty might be secondary to the political benefits of causing a scene.
On September 19, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of having a hand in the killing of a Canadian citizen and Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Trudeau took a high moral ground and declared that “Canada is a rule of law country, the protection of our citizens are fundamental.. Law enforcement and security agencies ensure continued safety of all Canadians..”
But a day later, Canada-based Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor and spokesperson for ‘Sikhs for Justice’, a pro-Khalistan group, on Wednesday issued a video message threatening Canadian Indian, saying “Indo-Canadian Hindus, you have refuted your allegiance to Canada and the Canadian constitution. Your destination is India. Leave Canada and go to India. Pro-Khalistan Sikhs have always been loyal to Canada. They have always sided with Canada and they have upholded the laws and constitution of Canada.”
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Police Department says it’s beefing up security outside India’s Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential link between India’s government and the killing of a Sikh community leader in B.C.
Const. Tania Visintin, the department’s media relations officer, says police are “closely monitoring the situation” since Trudeau’s announcement about the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter of an independent Sikh homeland, who was shot dead in Surrey in June.
On the bright side, Justin Trudeau got one promise right: Canada is back on the world stage.
Sadly, it’s for all the wrong reasons after the prime minister accused the government of the world’s fifth largest economy of dispatching assassins to kill a Sikh separatist leader in broad daylight outside a Surrey, B.C. temple.
The world took notice, but didn’t exactly rush to Canada’s side despite having advance warning the bombshell would soon be dropped into the public domain.
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.
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.
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.
What we know about the man India allegedly killed on Canadian soil
… He came to Canada in 1997, Global reported, and claimed refugee status, having used a false passport to enter the country.
His refugee claim was rejected, but 11 days after that, he married a woman who sponsored him for immigration. That, too, was rejected, although Nijjar called himself a Canadian citizen, and Trudeau referred to him as such in the House of Commons on Monday.
Not a Canadian citizen, just a suspected terrorist and murderer on the run who used Canada as a doormat just like Trudeau does.
Many other nations have assassinated troublesome types abroad. Some Canada considers allies.
Few complain that Israel offed the Munich terrorists wherever they found them.
Trudeau’s selective faux outrage is disingenuous given Canada chose sides in this conflict and offered a safe haven to Khalistani separatists.
Trudeau hoped this announcement would deflect from his horrid domestic predicament and it will but only to illustrate what a sorry hypocrite he is for having sought to wrap himself in the flag in a desperate attempt to boost his flatlining popularity and divert attention from the LPC’s corrupt links with Communist China.
Given the animosity between China and India it is reasonable to wonder if Trudeau isn’t acting on Xi Jinping’s intruction or on his own initiative to embarrass India and score Brownie points with his ChiCom friends.
After all it is alleged the CSIS China leaks were due to the Trudeau government’s efforts to restore “normal relations” with Communist China despite their having taken two Canadian citizens hostage and resolute commitment to undermine Canadian sovereignty.
When it comes to Trudeau no motive is too low to be ruled out.
Lots of reaction …
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