Canada-India Hostilities

"[Canadian businesses and investors may be faced with "uncertainty" resulting from expulsions of Indian diplomats from Canada; rest assured the government plans to support commercial and economic ties between itself and India]."

"However, we must consider our economic interests with the need to protect Canadians and uphold the rule of law."

"We will not tolerate any foreign government threatening, extorting or harming Canadian citizens on our soil."

"[The Canadian government is] open to dialogue [with India and look forward to continuing a] valued relationship." 

Canada's Trade Minister Mary Ng

India's envoy to Canada, who is being expelled over what Ottawa says are links to the murder of a Sikh leader, insisted in an interview he was innocent and said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had wrecked bilateral political ties, but trade may remain unscathed.  Reuters

 

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, a Canadian Sikh and known supporter of the Khalistan movement that seeks to divide India by carving out a geographic region as a Sikh homeland, dismisses the  history in Canada of Sikh extremists, their criminal activities in pursuit of forcing a Sikh separatist movement, insists that the government levy "severe sanctions" on any Indian diplomat involved in criminal activity in Canada. Sikh extremist elements within the wider Sikh-Canadian population have been guilty of murdering a newspaper editor critical of Sikh violence against India, of severely beating a prominent Sikh moderate and former premier of British Columbia, Ujjal Dosanjh, attempt to assassinate a visiting Indian MP, and an infamous plot to bomb an Air India flight in midair, killing all 329 people aboard.

Justin Trudeau, Canada's divisive prime minister, set the stage for a highly hostile relationship between Canada and India when in the summer he announced in Parliament that the government of India was complicit in murders carried out by Indian Hindu contract killers in the death of a prominent Sikh-Canadian who was a stalwart in the violent Khalistan movement. He repeated the allegation again in Parliament last week. In India itself, the separatist Sikh movement has spent itself. Yet agitators for Sikh separation and advocates for violence against Hindus and Indian government officials have found a home in Canada where their criminal excesses are handily overlooked.

Sikh separatists hold rallies where they excoriate India, demanding their vision of Khalistan be recognized. Parades where the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visage is hatefully distorted, his effigy hanged, and where Sikh-assassinated former Prime Minister Indira Ghandi was murdered by her own Sikh guards, making it a matter of great satisfaction and celebration, the figures of the two Indian prime ministers hatefully caricatured, with no sign of a protest from the Trudeau government that insulting a collegial democratic country will not be countenanced in Canada.

Canada saw fit last week to formally expel India's high commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Verma along with five other accredited, now accused Indian diplomats. For its part, India returned the compliment, expelling Canada's diplomats from India. Justin Trudeau's reason for the expulsion was that evidence had been acquired that linked the government of India with "links tying agents of the Government of India to homicides".  The RCMP announced conclusions in their investigation of Indian agents conspiring with hit men to murder Khalistani-separatist Sikh-Canadians.

India's Ministry of External Affairs observes with justification an "atmosphere of extremism and violence" against India is alive and well in Canada. India's Narendra Modi spoke of numerous instances when Justin Trudeau was given a list of names of Sikhs in Canada convicted of criminal activities in India, with the request that they be extradited to India. No such action was ever undertaken by Trudeau's Liberal government. The large, influential voting bloc of Sikh-Canadians is in no danger of Canada's Liberal government cracking down on their hostile, anti-India provocations.

"What we've seen from an RCMP perspective is the use of organized crime elements ... and it's been publicly attributed and claimed by one organized crime group in particular, which is the Bishnol group."

"We believe that that group is connected to agents of the government of India".

Assistant RCMP Commissioner Brigitte Gauvin

Irish naval authorities in Cork bring debris from bombed Air India flight ashore on 28 June 1985  Getty Images

 

India's National Investigation Agency filed a charge sheet against Bishnol for alleged links to Babbar Khalsa International, listed as a terrorist organization in Canada. Babbar Khalsa plotted and carried out the 1983 Air India bombing, representing the worst act of terrorism in aviation history prior to the Sept, 11, 2001 event. Chief Babbar Khalsa plotter Talwinder Singh Parmar was living in British Columbia while India attempted to have him returned to face murder charges; Canada refused to cooperate.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and his then Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper leaving wreaths at a memorial in Toronto in 2015 in memory of the hundreds of Indian Hindu-Canadians whose lives were lost on Air India Flight 182.  CP

Israel Baiters, Jew Haters -- They Are Legion

"Resisting Israeli occupation and apartheid is a right. Unconditional support for the Palestinian resistance movement until full liberation!" [Oct 8 2023] 

"Palestinian resistance mov't has demonstrated 2day that Israeli settler colonialism & occupation will not last. Unity of the resistance forces & solidarity is needed now more than ever as a new stage in the war of liberation has begun."

"[The] struggle in Palestine isn't a humanitarian one one, as liberals and some leftists like to think. It is a national liberation struggle with all that entails. This includes not questioning the tools used by the oppressed to achieve their liberation."

Hassan Husseini, national negotiator, Public Service Alliance of Canada

"I do not feel that he [Husseini] would be able to properly represent me, a Jew and a Zionist."

"I continue to feel  unrepresented by PSAC as they ostracized many Jewish members and created  space in which we do not all feel safe."

PSAC member Chelsea (surname withheld on request)

"Since October 7, the union has taken an antisemitic path, which has undermined the diversity of its members. They have already organized anti-Israeli webinars and meetings."

"They did nothing to stop the rising antisemitism; rather, they instigated it by taking sides in foreign political matters."

Valerya Shneider, PSAC member

@JoeTruzman

Demonstrators in Toronto, Canada, celebrate following the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel.

 

 

 

Academia in Canada, along with unions, have been expressing their opinions about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza from the perspective of a viral propaganda campaign launched by Islamists and supporters of Palestinian 'resisters' of the Israeli 'occupation' of the West Bank and Gaza. That Israel is forced to maintain its overseer status is similar to the work of a zookeeper maintaining the enclosures of wild animals. 

 

Without that Israeli function of military supervision, Palestinian terrorists would enjoy free reign to attack Jews, whether those in authority, in the military, in security of law and order or civilians.

The administrators of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas, and that of Hamas governing Gaza, incite their public to hatred and violence against Israel and Jews relentlessly. Both governments of the Palestinian Territories have never bothered to focus on establishing civilian governing infrastructure that would lead to the state status they so fervently speak of to the West. 

 

Israel's oversight is an existential requirement to ensure the safety and security of Israeli citizens, including the two million Palestinians who live in Israel as state-entitled citizens.

In Canada, the current government which prides itself on its progressive credentials which ensure quality of life and security for all Canadian citizens and residents, and cites equality of all, has experienced some value judgement equivocations in attempting to balance a fine line in reflection of its population of both Jews and Muslims, by giving as much credence to statements expressed by Hamas as it does those of official Israel. 

 

There has been no solid condemnation followed up by restraining actions by governments in Canada in response to vicious slanders, threats, violence, or criminal actions perpetrated by pro-Hamas groups in Canada against Canadian Jews and their institutions, much less Canadian public and private institutions.

On the very day of the barbaric invasion by Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas into southern Israel to carry out a pre-programmed slaughter of Jews, mass rapes, mutilations, and abductions of children, women and the elderly, the national negotiator for Canada's largest public service union responded to a social media post by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs denouncing Canadians celebrating the atrocities, when he responded: "It is called liberation of stolen land, stupid!!!"

The logic of labelling ancestral heritage geography as stolen land aside, this kind of bald-faced libelous slander would never see the light of day if Islamists knew they would be held responsible under Canada's criminal law code for promulgating and promoting hatred of an identifiable minority. Under this government of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, that has not happened, nor will it happen. 

 

This government's eye is fixated on numbers; the large number of Muslims who now populate Canada, as opposed to the much smaller number of Canadian Jews.

Even as the scale of the massacre by Islamist terrorists in Israel was being clarified as new information was released, the barrage of celebratory 'protests' in support of Palestinian terror was unprecedented as an expression of sheer, unadulterated hatred. Choruses of 'final solution', 'intifada' and 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!' rang out on the streets of Canadian cities in well-orchestrated campaigns of intimidation of Jews in Canada and the furtherance of support among antisemitic fundamentalists in Canada. To which politicians tut-tutted, but made no move to respond to.

The day prior to the Israel Defense Forces' ground operation in Gaza, Husseini wrote to his followers: "Good morning and f--k #Apartheid_Israel and anyone who defends it and attempts to whitewash its #WarCrimes and genocide". Husseini compared Israel to Nazi Germany while accusing Canadian media of spreading "Zionist propaganda" as he compared Hamas terrorists to Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi extermination machinery. 

 

Fred Hahn, a CUPE Ontario leader also praised the October 7 bloodbath.

 

"Unions should focus on their members' working conditions and benefits, not on divisive, amateurish, simplistic, one-sided, and toxic forays into foreign policy."

"It goes much further than simply Husseini. It is an organized campaign, led and inspired by people like Husseini and Fred Hahn and implemented by activists who are making Jewish union members unwelcome in organizations created to protect every one of their members."

"There are good reasons that some unions are being taken to human rights tribunals for anti-Jewish discrimination."

"This has to stop."

Richard Marceau, general counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs