Just days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the astonishing allegation that Canada has “credible intelligence” linking agents of the Indian government to the killing of a Canadian citizen, the scandal has scarcely been mentioned during question period in the House of Commons.
There might be a good reason for that, observers say.
“There’s a lot of landmines here,” said Shakir Chambers, a former Conservative Party staffer and now a principal at Earnscliffe Strategies.
Foreign affairs are a minefield for Justin Trudeau but surely no one expected him to trigger an explosive diplomatic war with India.
This is now a defining moment for the prime minister who must prove himself either a strong and decisive leader or a weak and ineffectual politician. But does Trudeau possess the Churchillian spirit?
Junior is already in enough hot water having grossly overestimated international reaction to his accusation.
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Following Canada’s accusation this week that agents with connections to the Indian government were responsible for the fatal shooting on Canadian soil of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canada’s Five Eyes allies have so far been reluctant to wade too deeply into the incident.
The CBC’s Evan Dyer reported this week that Canada had already indicated to the U.S. and the U.K. during and immediately following the G20 summit in New Delhi earlier this month that Canada’s already difficult relations with India were about to get even rockier.
Trudeau’s stewardship has isolated Canada with his dubious record of foreign allegiances.
Trudeau announced Canada would be a permanent NATO deadbeat.
We were not invited to join the AUKUS military alliance officially because we would not purchase nuclear subs but more likely because his government is riddled with ChiCom assets.
Alienating India by harboring Khalistani terrorists is not a good look among allies hoping to win India over as a counter to Justin’s admired basic dictatorship.
In short Canada is not a serious international partner, Junior has little more than Gender Language to offer.
They’re right! …
India calls Canada a ‘safe haven for terrorists’ as it suspends visa services for Canadians
India’s visa processing centre in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader.
“Important notice from Indian Mission: Due to operational reasons, with effect from 21 Sept. Indian visa services have been suspended [until] further notice,” the BLS Indian Visa Application Center in Canada said in a statement.
At least nine separatist organisations supporting terror groups have bases in Canada and despite multiple deportation requests, Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes, including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials in New Delhi said on Tuesday.
Justin’s foreign allegiances are dangerous for Canada.
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.
