Posted on 09/18/2023 4:17:27 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada has credible information that the government of India was involved in the murder of a prominent British Columbia Sikh leader on Canadian soil in June.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in his truck by two masked gunmen as he left his Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., on June 18. He was the president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara and a vocal supporter of the establishment of a separate state, called Khalistan, for Sikhs in India...
Canada recently cancelled trade talks with India and a proposed Team Canada trade mission was cancelled over the weekend. Trudeau said the protection of Canadians is the primary focus....
[Foreign Minister Melanie Joly] said she spoke with her Indian counterpart, had expelled a high-ranking Indian diplomat, and made it clear that Canada wanted the Indian government to work closely with Canadian law enforcement...
Joly identified the expelled diplomat as the head of the country’s intelligence agency in Canada...
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, a Sikh who has been denied a visa to travel to India, said the news would resonate deeply with Canada’s Sikh community...
While much of India has moved on, Dehejia said, Canada remains a reliable hotbed of Khalistani support, including some extremist elements. With the most notable example of that extremism being the June 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, blamed on a Khalistani terror group....
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Trudeau has been very close to the Sikh separatists, no wonder India is choked ... this is like putting a grenade under Canada-India relations ...
Canada is a VERY VIOLENT country. Glad I don’t live there.
no one cares
Is Justin from Canada still pissed about getting stiffed at the G20
TruDope is a fascist commie mirroring the “leadership” of Cuber.
For once in his life, Trudeau is almost certainly right. Even a blind bird catches a worm once in a while.
So is India.
reportedly, India has more guns than the US
We’re talking about Trudeau so I’ll take India’s side on this.
don’t forget, a lot of those Sikhs reliably vote Liberal every election ... those are Trudeau’s supporters
that’s why he sides with them
I can’t see how that is possible.
Bingo! Castro, errrr I mean Trudeau is against Indian-Canadian voters.
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