In these new videos below, I talk to Frank Gaffney about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India for the G-20 summit, where he again made an international spectacle of himself. The fallout since then has been equally disastrous, as Trudeau has accused India of the assassination of a Khalistani separatist leader in June. The fallout is now erupting into a full-blown diplomatic row between Canada and India, and the US and Australia have expressed “deep concern” about Trudeau’s conduct.
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In 2018, Jihad Watch ran the headline: Trudeau Exposed: A Leader Who Embraces Islamic Supremacists and Khalistani Terrorists
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The icing on the cake was the invitation of criminal Jaspal Atwal at a formal dinner reception with Trudeau in India hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner, which heightened the spectacle of Trudeau’s visit. Atwal was sentenced to 20 years in a Canadian court for his part in the attempted murder of a visiting Indian state minister. Pictures of him posing with Trudeau’s wife Sophieat a banquet in Mumbai were also splashed across media outlets, and it emerged that his name made the guest list through the machinations of Liberal MP Randeep Surai.
Atwal is tied to the Khalistani movement, an outlawed group of Sikhs in India who are seeking to create a separate province in the Punjab region.
Mr. Gaffney and I addressed the strong Khalistani presence in Canada. A South Asian Monitor report two years ago accused Trudeau’s Canada of “blatantly condoning Khalistani terrorism.” Canada has the highest population of Sikhs outside Punjab, and they say that “Khalistan” does not represent them.
Some may be familiar with Khalistani terrorism from an inquiry into the Air India bombing of Flight 182, which was headed from Toronto to London in 1985. All 329 people aboard the flight were killed. The Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh militant and Khalistani separatist group, was implicated in the bombing.
In the interviews below, Frank and I also address Modi’s grave concerns about Canada’s role in facilitating Khalistani terrorists. Modi confronted Trudeau about this on the sidelines of the G-20. I also mentioned the gunning down of prominent Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June by two masked gunmen in the parking lot of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, and how the Khalistani movement immediately blamed India for his murder.
Nijjar was wanted by Indian authorities in connection with an attack on a Hindu priest in India, and had offered a cash reward for information leading to his arrest.
An important UPDATE following my interview with Mr Gaffney: Trudeau suddenly expelled top Indian diplomat Pavan Kumar Ra, after accusing India of murdering Nijjar. Trudeau’s act of diplomatic hostility took place before any investigation was conducted. In response, India expelled a Canadian diplomat.
The US has said that it is “deeply concerned” about Trudeau’s linking India to the killing of Nijjar:
“We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau earlier today,” US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
Australia is also “deeply concerned.” As this story unfolds, expect Trudeau to try to explain his way out and end the backlash without providing any tangible evidence for his impromptu, serious accusation against India, which came two months after Nijjar’s murder, right after his second humiliating trip to the country, which was deemed “disastrous.” Trudeau has a reputation for secrecy.
My interview with Mr. Gaffney also included the growing link between Kashmiri jihadists, Pakistani intelligence and the Khalistani movement. There was also mention of China’s possible role with the Khalistan group, as the communist regime expands its activities in the region. In early August, China announced an expansion of its Belt and Road Initiative with its “all-weather ally” Pakistan for “regional connectivity.” This was in reference to its 60 billion (USD) China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project.
As it turns out, an influential Khalistan-supporting group called Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) recently reached out to China for support of the Khalistani movement’s separatist efforts. SFJ took advantage of the 2020 border clash between China and India at the Galwan River valley. Its leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a lawyer based in New York, stated ahead of the G-20:
The G20 Summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10 would serve as an appropriate platform for China to announce the annexation of Arunachal Pradesh and endorse the Khalistan Referendum.
I discuss the Sikhs for Justice group’s goals in the video, as well as its deep connection to Khalistanis in Canada, and its rallying of support in other Western countries.
Trudeau has opened a can of worms as he continues to foment trouble with India, over an issue that could spark a division between the US and Canada. And all this is happening as the world realigns its political partnerships. Trudeau also repeatedly demonstrates his tendency to align himself with anti-democracy players.
SKA says
Trudeau’s mouth is a loose cannon.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good interview. Although if Frank Gaffney reads just this website, which he praises whenever he has Robert or Christine on, he’d know that in India, muslims are the persecutors, not the persecuted. The accusation that the BJP is a Hindu government is about as mythical as the Tories in the UK being a Conservative government: Hindus are way worse off than they were even in the 70 years of Congress rule
On this diplomatic fallout, Canada has expelled an Indian diplomat over this murder, and India has retaliated by expelling a Canadian diplomat. In 2018, Modi was more assertive and humiliated Trudeau then, but this time, while Canada was humiliated at the G20, being left out of certain key announcements, India this time seems to be treating Canada as more important than it actually is. Or else, India could have just recalled all its envoys and broken off diplomatic relations w/ Canada
On the murdered man, it looks like he entered Canada illegally: while he claimed that he was a Canadian citizen, he did not even have a legitimate visa to be there. Nonetheless, he was, and his death happened as a result of intra-Khalistani gang violence. The idea that India was behind it was ludicrous: India can’t even pull off successful missions in Pakistan or Bangladesh, much less in countries like Canada
Finally, on the Sikh issue: while it is true that only a minority of Sikhs support this Khalistan movement, a lot of Hindus don’t help things by insisting that Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists are Hindus. There is enough divergence from mainstream Vedic & Puranic Hinduism that qualifies all 3 of them to be distinct religions. On the Khalistan movement, not only is 40% of Punjab Hindu, but the Khalistan claims also cover a lot of other Hindu northern Indian territory where there aren’t too many Sikhs. They have also ganged up w/ Jihadist groups, as Christine noted: I saw one map of India where after Khalistan was marked out, the rest of North India was labelled “Urdustan” implying that they wanted to hand it over to the muslims
As for the referendum, they’re holding it in British Columbia, as well as in Australia (Melbourne) and probably Britain as well. But nowhere is the support stronger than in Canada. One thing Christine forgot to mention: the main driving factor behind this Canadian government’s support to Khalistan is Jagmeet Singh and his NDP, and he is the most high profile supporter of Khalistan in any government worldwide