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Canada's Stand Against Violent Extremism

"We will always stand against violent extremism, but we understand that diversity of views is one of the great strengths of Canada."
"I was able to make that very clear to him [Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, at Amritsar]."
"We will continue to work on these issues [in Canada should threats of violent extremism occur] wherever they arise."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"Happy to receive categorical assurance from Trudeau that Canada supports a united India'."
"His words are a big relief to all of us here in India and we look forward to the government's support in tackling fringe separatist elements."
Facebook account, Amarinder Singh

"We shouldn't be sending the prime minister into situations that are uncertain and where the visit is consumed by the drama of whether something that should have been predictable happens or not. That's happening too much."
"Were relying too much on how photogenic and how popular we think the prime minister is, and it's beginning to backfire on us."
"It is a real signal that all is not well and he [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] doesn't appreciate what he's hearing about our position. He's got a strong personality and he's not afraid of sending strong messages [of India's concern over Canada's seeming oblivion to its support of Khalistani separatists]."
David Mulroney, senior career foreign service officer, former Ambassador to China

 

"I reject the baseless attacks against Canadian cabinet ministers and we should be wary of any international interference in our political affairs, especially when it's targeted at minorities such as members of the Sikh community."
"The Indian government has a troubling record of conflating human rights advocacy with extremism for their own political benefit. Like all Canadians, I condemn all acts of terrorism and violence while maintaining a fundamental belief in the freedom of belief and expression."
Opposition NDP leader Jagmeet Singh

Such noble attestations by Jagmeet Singh, the Sikh leader of the federal New Democratic Party who flirts with Palestinian 'rights' and criticism of Israel when sincerely extreme members of his party push for BDS in support of the oppressed Palestinians, conveniently overlooking the PA leadership inciting to violence against Jews. Yet Singh is offended at what he insists is Indian interference in Canadian affairs. Another Sikh Canadian, former premier of British Columbia and formerly a federal Cabinet minister, Ujjal Dosanjh is concerned not about Indian interference but Singh.

According to Ujjal Dosanjhy it is troubling that: "The new leader [of the NDP Jagmeet Singh] hasn't come clean on the issue of terrorism. He hasn't said unequivocally that he condemns Talwinder Singh Parmar for being a terrorist. That should tell you something." Parmar was held by a Commission of Inquiry into the Air India flight 182 bombing in 1985 that killed 329 mostly Indo-Canadians, to be the leader of the terrorist conspiracy. He and his co-conspirators were ultimately found not guilty at trial due to lack of evidence.

But there was evidence to link Jaspal Atwal, a Liberal supporter living in Vancouver, with the commission of a crime; attempted murder of a visiting Indian Cabinet Minister back in 1986. Three shots were fired, one wounding the Minister. Jaspal Atwal and his two companions were found guilty and given 20 years imprisonment each. Atwal later admitted that he had fired the shot that hit the Indian Minister. And it was Atwal that Ujjal Dosanjh accused of beating him with an iron bar spiked with a metal bolt the year before, to silence his criticism of Sikh violence -- though he was acquitted for lack of evidence.

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This is the very same Jaspal Atwal who just happened to be visiting India at the same time as Justin Trudeau and his entourage of three Indo-Canadian Sikh Cabinet Ministers and a horde of others. And who was invited through the Canadian High Commission to come along to events feting Trudeau, and a formal state dinner in his honour. Until the Canadian news networks got wind of the affair and blew it up in Trudeau's face. Attesting sincerely to Prime Minister Modi and the Punjab Minister that Canada rejected and guarded against extremism and then inviting a convicted Sikh felon to pose with the Trudeaus.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year attended a Sikh event in Toronto featuring Khalistan flags and posters celebrating Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the extremist Sikh Khalistani leader whose band had sequestered themselves within the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1984 with weapons to fight the Indian troops surrounding it. "We've turned a blind eye to a festering movement aimed at dismembering a friendly country", stated Ujjal Dosanjh, himself a lone voice in the wilderness warning Canadian authorities against Sikh extremism.

Justin Trudeau, however, has ended his family vacation in India on the taxpayer's dime that extended to his huge entourage of Cabinet Ministers, political insiders and business people on an ostensible state visit with trade overtones, with huge satisfaction. He had a ball, he really did, and pre-ordering the glittering costumes to outfit the Trudeau family in their holiday venture was a real gas. His perfunctory meeting with Prime Minister Modi went swimmingly, thanks for asking, taking up all of an hour on the penultimate day of an eight-day trip.

A good time, a really good time was had by all.  And oh, those photo-ops!

Labels: Artificial Intelligence, Canada, India, Justin Trudeau

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, February 24, 2018