The growing conflict between Canada and India, explained … by the Washington Post

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bombshell allegation in Parliament last year that agents of the Indian government were linked to the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader on Canadian soil sent relations between Ottawa and New Delhi plummeting.

Since then, each country has expelled the other’s diplomats, and police here have alleged Indian government involvement in a wide range of violent acts targeting Sikhs in Canada. Trudeau this week said India had made a “horrific mistake” in thinking it could violate Canada’s sovereignty.

The claims have deepened concerns among Western officials that India, a country they’ve sought to court as a counter to China, is practicing “transnational repression” — a tactic more commonly employed by authoritarian regimes such as in Russia and Iran — to target its critics abroad.


A plague on all their houses. This is a Justin Trudeau problem brought about by his reliance on identity politics.

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Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are putting their parties before the country, says guy who put his pension before Canada

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are putting their parties before the country, Jagmeet Singh says

OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has accused his political rivals of putting their electoral prospects before protecting Canada’s democracy, the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled bombshell allegations that there are Conservatives with ties to foreign meddling.

That the prime minister dropped those revelations at a public inquiry peeling back the layers of his own Liberal government’s response to foreign interference was not lost on Singh, who said Thursday that both Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre “have, at many times, chosen to put their party before the country.”

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Pierre Poilievre has taken politics to a new low. Justin Trudeau is willing to join him there

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is not wrong when he says that dangerous politics are being played with national security in this country.

Taking aim at Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre, Singh said on Thursday: “I think it’s clear to me that both of these leaders have at many times chosen to put the party before the country.”

Only at the Star.

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Jordan Peterson & Tucker Carlson Funded by Russia’s RT, Justin Trudeau Says

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said under oath that Tucker Carlson is funded by a Russian state-owned media outlet, without providing evidence for the claim.

Trudeau made the allegation about Carlson and fellow conservative media personality Jordan Peterson while testifying at a public inquiry into foreign interference on Wednesday.

The Canadian prime minister was addressing alleged Russian influence in spreading anti-vaccine messaging in the media and on social media during the “Freedom Convoy,” a protest against COVID-19 vaccines and restrictions in Canada in early 2022.

No way to sue Junior I suppose.

 

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Singh says he doesn’t understand why Poilievre won’t get top security clearance

OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it’s very disturbing that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t get the top-level security clearance needed to view classified documents on foreign interference.

Singh said party leaders need to be briefed on top-secret information, noting the allegations this week that Indian agents played a role in the extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Trudeau’s interference allegations a dramatic act of self-preservation

Love him or hate him, you’ve got to give Justin Trudeau credit. He is the political equivalent of a cockroach. You can spray him with invective, stomp on him with slogans, drown him in bad polls, and still he scuttles along, fighting to survive. And not only survive, but attack, accusing his opponents of the greatest sin in politics: being traitors to their country.

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Trudeau’s inquiry appearance reeks of political gamesmanship

Once again, Justin Trudeau showed there is no issue so serious that he wouldn’t use it for his own political advantage.

While testifying before the Foreign Interference Commission, Trudeau accused the Conservatives of harbouring people involved in foreign interference and Leader Pierre Poilievre of looking the other way.

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The Canada-India row has its roots in the Liberals’ diaspora politics

In 1989, when reports surfaced that Ottawa had expelled Indian diplomats for spying, then foreign affairs minister Joe Clark did not hold a press conference to lecture the Indian government or express righteous indignation at its alleged Vienna Convention violations.

Instead, Mr. Clark rose in the House of Commons to respond to charges from the Liberal immigration critic Sergio Marchi that India’s government had engaged in “elaborate and covert operations … to discredit and destabilize the Canadian Sikh community” and manipulate Canadian officials. India had grown frustrated with Canada’s coddling of Sikh separatists and the RCMP’s botched investigation into the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight that originated in Canada.

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Trudeau came to the foreign-interference inquiry to hurl a grenade at his opponent

Justin Trudeau brought a twist to the tale.

The Prime Minister appeared on the very last day of witness testimony at the foreign-interference inquiry to push back against the political damage it has caused. And to hurl a grenade at his opponent.

Mr. Trudeau, as is customary at this inquiry on secretive national-security matters, had already been interviewed behind closed doors. And as a summary of that testimony showed, he said he has seen “explosive” information about foreign interference in a political party that he did not name

Trudeau may be lying outright but even if he isn’t for a change he and his party are up to their necks in foreign interference.

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Focus on Possibly Treasonous MPs Could Become ‘Kangaroo Court’ Says Ex-Kangaroo in Kangaroo Gov’t

Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino says he is very worried the public conversation about some parliamentarians being complicit in foreign interference is becoming a “kangaroo court.”

Mendicino said at a federal inquiry into foreign meddling today that it’s important to follow due process under the law before leaping to conclusions about the conduct of parliamentarians.

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CSIS Had to Make Public Safety Minister ‘Comfortable’ With Wiretap of Ontario Politician: Deputy Minister

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had to make then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair feel “comfortable” with a request for surveillance powers on an Ontario politician, a former top Public Safety official told the Foreign Interference Commission.

The commission has been probing why it took Blair 54 days to approve the 2021 warrant application against a subject whose identity was not revealed during proceedings.

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What happened in Bill Blair’s office during unexplained 54-day gap?

Things went missing in Bill Blair’s office in the spring of 2021. Important things.

Mr. Blair was, after all, the public safety minister, responsible for the intelligence agencies, the RCMP and the border agency, among other things.

Yet a CSIS intelligence note addressed to the minister didn’t make it to Mr. Blair’s eyes. And when CSIS sent a warrant application to the minister’s office seeking to conduct surveillance on an influential Ontario Liberal and former provincial cabinet minister, Michael Chan, it took 54 days before it got to Mr. Blair’s desk.

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Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5

Russia’s intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate “sustained mayhem on British and European streets”, the head of MI5 has said.

In a rare public speech, Ken McCallum warned that the UK was facing the most “complex and interconnected” threat it has ever seen.

MI5 has also responded to 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022, the director general said.

He said the complex mix of terror-related threats and threats from nation states meant that MI5 had “one hell of a job on its hands”.

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