There should be little doubt that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned from last week’s embarrassing trip to India full of spite and vengeance.
Pounced upon by the India Media for blaming India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and too far away from the protection of bought-off Canadian mainstream media, Trudeau seems to have returned to Canada loaded for bear.
Now the same Canadian PM caught in lies when the graves of thousands of childrens’ bodies turned up empty in the Residential School scandal, he’s now blaming India Prime Minister Modi for the assassination of Sikh Leader Hardeep Singh Nijar in British Columbia, Canada in June of this year.
As usual, Trudeau expects Canadians to take him at his word.
Increasing numbers of Canadians expect this kind of behaviour from a tyrannical prime minister who has in the past resorted to provable lies.
It should go without saying that Canadians do not expect Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to go along with Trudeau in his potentially baseless attacks on India, particularly because Trudeau has shown zero evidence or proof on the allegations he is making.
Today Poilievre is calling on Trudeau “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.” (Yahoo, Sept. 18, 2023)
Only yesterday, Poilievre said the government of India must be held accountable—“If true”.
“Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday called for the “utmost transparency” as Canadian intelligence agencies investigate India’s potential link to the killing of a Sikh leader in B.C. Poilievre said that, if true, the allegations are an “outrageous affront” to Canadian sovereignty.” (Yahoo)
What sovereignty, Mr. Poilievre, when Trudeau has already ceded over Canada’s sovereignty—without parliamentary debate—to the Klaus Schwab-led WEF (World Economic Forum)—on your watch?
Others must have raised this question if only because today Poilievre has come back saying:
“The Prime Minister needs to come clean with all the facts. We need to know all the evidence possible so that Canadians can make judgments on that,” Mr. Poilievre told reporters, a day after he told the House of Commons that India must account for its conduct if the allegations are true. (Globe and Mail, Sept. 19, 2023)
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“Asked whether the Trudeau government should take stronger action than expelling an Indian diplomat, the Conservative Leader responded: “We need to see more facts.” He suggested the government is taking a stronger approach to New Delhi than it did with China after the 2018 arrest of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.
“I find it interesting that he knew about vast foreign interference by Beijing for many years at the same time Beijing kept two citizens hostage and he said nothing and he did nothing,” he said."
Beijing is Beijing, India is India.
The question here should be: “Why is the Canadian Government suddenly fighting the Indian Government?
Canada has the largest Sikh population outside of India.
“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.(Globe and Mail)
“Mr. Trudeau’s bombshell revelation came shortly after The Globe and Mail broke the news that Canadian security agencies had credible evidence that India was behind Mr. Nijjar’s slaying.
“On Tuesday, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly denied the allegations and said he was expelling a Canadian diplomat in turn. He said the New Delhi-based diplomat had five days to leave the country.
“On his way into a cabinet meeting, Mr. Trudeau defended his actions. He said the government had worked closely with Canadian intelligence agencies over the summer as they gathered evidence on India’s alleged role in the mid-June assassination of Mr. Nijjar, who was gunned down in a parking lot of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C.
“But he did not say whether Ottawa would provide Canadians with the evidence to substantiate the allegations. He acknowledged his government became aware of India’s involvement shortly after Mr. Nijjar’s slaying. (Globe and Mail)
“We wanted to make sure we took the time to talk with our allies and share what we knew. We wanted to make sure we fully shared with the government of India the seriousness and depth of our preoccupations and indeed conclusions,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters. “We are going to follow the evidence and make sure that the work is one to hold people to account.”
“New Delhi described Mr. Trudeau’s allegations, which he also made in person to his Indian counterpart at the G20 summit last week, as “absurd” and part of a pattern of his government in supporting the separatist Khalistan movement, which seeks to create a homeland for Sikhs in India’s northern state of Punjab.
“Such unsubstantiated allegations seek to shift the focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists, who have been provided shelter in Canada and continue to threaten India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” India’s Ministry of External Affairs statement said. “The inaction of the Canadian government on this matter has been a long-standing and continuing concern.”
"It expressed “deep concern” that Canadian political figures have “openly expressed sympathy” for Sikh separatists and accused Canada of giving space “to a range of illegal activities including murders, human trafficking and organized crime.”
“For his part, Mr. Trudeau urged India to take the Canadian allegations “extremely seriously”, adding the Canadian government does not want to “provoke or escalate” already tense relations with Mr. Modi’s Hindu nationalist government."
“Both Mr. Nijjar’s lawyer and the World Sikh Organization (WSO) have said the slain man had previously told them he had been warned by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that his life was in danger. CSIS has not confirmed this.
“Mukhbir Singh, a director with the WSO, urged Ottawa to take drastic measures in the wake of the Nijjar slaying – an incident he called a “terrorist act” – some of which would have a major impact on relations with New Delhi.
“India cannot be allowed to disregard the rule of law and the sovereignty of foreign states,” Mr. Singh told reporters.
“The WSO is calling on Canada to take six steps, including identifying and bringing to justice those involved in the shooting death of Mr. Nijjar, he said.
"Other recommendations, some of which would likely invite retaliation from India, include: immediate protection for any Sikh adherents in Canada “who face a threat from India and its agents;” a thorough and ongoing review of all India diplomats in Canada to identify and remove those found to be involved in foreign interference and espionage; new measures to block all Indian citizens from entering Canada who belong to New Delhi’s intelligence services or have been implicated in human rights abuses; immediately stop all intelligence-sharing with India and ensure the upcoming public inquiry on foreign interference also probes India’s meddling in Canada.”
It’s been some time since average Canadians have stopped taking their destructive prime minister at his word.
How about you Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre?
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
