Juno News - July 10, 2023


Justin Trudeau’s growing Khalistan Problem


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Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been at odds with each other for years, but things have only gotten worse in the past few months. India has accused Canada of being soft on Sikh extremists, and Canada has been accused of pandering to them in order to secure electoral votes in Canada. Is Justin Trudeau too cozy with Sikh extremists in Canada?

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00:00:00.000 I'm going to guess that most of you don't follow Indian media or read Indian news but if you do
00:00:12.400 you are no doubt aware of the worsening diplomatic battle between the Indian government and the
00:00:17.780 Canadian government. The war of words brewing between Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister
00:00:22.960 Narendra Modi. Although Canada-India relations have been miserable ever since Justin Trudeau
00:00:28.900 rocked up in New Delhi dressed as a 19th century Maharaja things have gotten much worse in just
00:00:35.060 the past few months. This is mainly because of growing aggression being displayed by Calistanis 1.00
00:00:40.260 toward the Indian government in Canada the United States and the United Kingdom. Calistanis are 1.00
00:00:45.900 Sikh Indians who advocate for a breakaway Sikh ethnostate in the Indian province of Punjab. 0.83
00:00:51.880 You're likely now asking yourself why you should care and why I'm talking about it right now.
00:00:57.220 Well it's time somebody calls out the undeniable reality that the liberal government and Justin
00:01:02.700 Trudeau in particular has very close ties to Calistani factions in Canada and is no doubt
00:01:08.560 pandering to these factions in order to secure electoral votes in Canada. In fact the Indian
00:01:14.420 government is making those direct accusations to Justin Trudeau as we speak accusing Trudeau of
00:01:20.420 being driven by what they call vote bank politics. Now the real question behind all of this is at what
00:01:26.200 point is Justin Trudeau willing to sacrifice Canada's reputation with the largest democracy
00:01:31.100 in the world just to stay in power in Canada? Well quite frankly it looks as though he's willing to go
00:01:36.400 all the way. Over the next 10 or 12 minutes we're going to dive into the backstory of what's been
00:01:40.880 driving this worsening diplomatic dispute over the past two months between Canada and India and we're
00:01:46.560 also going to get into Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh's close ties to Calistani factions in Canada.
00:01:53.160 Now this is receiving wall-to-wall coverage in India right now but is basically being blacked out
00:01:57.780 by Canadian media. So we're going to try and figure out what is going on. Drop a like in the video help
00:02:02.400 us out by subscribing to the TrueNearth YouTube channel and the comment question for the episode
00:02:06.120 is this. Is Justin Trudeau too close to Calisthenes in Canada? Let me know in the comments and let's get
00:02:14.020 into it. Here was the Indian External Affairs Minister last week taking a direct shot at Justin Trudeau and
00:02:19.560 the Canadian government for being soft on Calistani extremists in our country and for being captured
00:02:24.480 at what they call vote bank politics. Pandering to seeks in Canada for votes by not taking seriously the
00:02:31.440 issue of Calisthenes. Take a listen. How Canada has dealt with the Calistani issue has been a long-standing
00:02:39.560 concern because very frankly they seem to be driven by vote bank politics. And their, you know, responses
00:02:47.720 have all been, to the best of my understanding, actually constrained by what they regard as vote bank
00:02:59.560 compulsions on them. We made it very clear and I've done so sometimes even in public, which is that,
00:03:06.280 you know, if there are activities which are permitted from Canada which impinge on our sovereignty, territorial
00:03:15.720 integrity, on our security, then, I mean, we will have to respond. In response, here is Justin Trudeau
00:03:21.800 saying that India is wrong to make that accusation and that Canada has always taken seriously terrorism
00:03:27.800 and threats of terrorism in our country. Prime Minister, we've seen a parade float depict the
00:03:32.920 assassination of Indira Gandhi and posters calling on people to kill India. The Indian government says
00:03:39.160 you're being soft on Sikh extremism because you rely on votes from that community. How can you 0.99
00:03:44.120 demonstrate to them that they're wrong? They are wrong. Canada has always taken extremely seriously
00:03:51.240 violence and threats of violence. We've always taken serious action against terrorism and we always will.
00:03:57.240 We have an extremely diverse country and freedom of expression is something that we have, but we will
00:04:05.400 always make sure that we are pushing back against violence and extremism in all its forms. So what exactly is the
00:04:11.640 backstory here? What has been going on? Well, for weeks, posters have been circulating around Canada depicting the
00:04:18.120 Indian government as the killers of a man named Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was a man on India's most wanted list and in
00:04:27.480 June, he was gunned down outside of his Gurdwara, a temple in Surrey, British Columbia. Nijjar was
00:04:33.960 allegedly the leader of the Calistan Tiger Force, a group that the Indian government has labeled as a
00:04:39.800 terrorist organization. Posters, however, are quite inflammatory. As you can see, it says kill India and
00:04:45.960 it also has the names and faces of the Toronto Consul General and the Indian High Commissioner accusing them
00:04:52.280 of being the killers of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Calistanis in Canada also believe that the
00:04:57.800 Indian government is behind the deaths of two other high profile and prominent Calistani leaders,
00:05:03.640 one in the United Kingdom and one in Pakistan. The three deaths of these Calistani leaders,
00:05:09.080 all of whom were on India's most wanted list, happened within a 45-day period raising suspicion.
00:05:15.320 Now, there is no evidence to state that India is behind the killing of either of these three men,
00:05:20.440 but if it is true that they are behind the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, well, that is a serious
00:05:25.480 issue. We can't just have foreign governments carrying out extrajudicial executions in our 0.77
00:05:31.000 country. It is just simply not on and if it is true, they should be held responsible. But it's also
00:05:36.120 possible that the Indian government has nothing to do with this. It could be that Hardeep Singh Nijjar
00:05:41.160 was wrapped up in gang violence. Last year, nine of British Columbia's 11 most wanted individuals
00:05:48.520 were in fact Punjabi. So it is possible that in fact, Nijjar was just wrapped up with the wrong
00:05:54.360 crowd. But since the deaths of these three individuals, Calisthenes in Canada, the United
00:05:59.080 States and the United Kingdom have significantly ramped up their aggression toward the Indian
00:06:03.720 government. And that is what brings us to where we are now. A few weeks ago, Calistani supporters set 0.99
00:06:09.240 fire to the Indian consulate in San Francisco. Just earlier, Calisthenes outside the Indian High
00:06:15.160 Commission in London tore down the Indian flag and raised the Calistani flag outside of the embassy.
00:06:22.760 And before these deaths, the Indian High Commission in Ottawa was attacked by a rowdy group of
00:06:27.400 Calisthenes. Indian media reports that these Calisthenes were using grenades outside of the Indian embassy,
00:06:33.160 while the Ottawa police are investigating smoke canisters being used. Trudeau has refused to condemn the
00:06:39.160 Kill India posters, but Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie did issue a formal condemnation.
00:06:46.280 On June 25th, a prior Calistan car rally was organized to disrupt a memorial for the Air India
00:06:54.440 bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, carried out by a group of Calistani terrorists
00:07:01.320 led by a man named Talwinder Parmar. 329 passengers and crew were killed in this plane bombing.
00:07:09.000 And this Calistan car rally poster featured prominently the face of Talwinder Parmar,
00:07:15.240 the terrorist behind the Air India bombing. How respectful to show up to the Air India Memorial.
00:07:21.640 And just to top it all off, earlier in June, a parade float circulating around Brampton, Ontario,
00:07:27.480 proudly displayed a tableau of the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister,
00:07:33.880 in the 1980s carried out by Sikh bodyguards. Again, what a lovely image to depict about your cause.
00:07:41.320 Trudeau refused to condemn any of these incendiary images by Calisthenes supporters, citing the right 0.98
00:07:47.960 to freedom of expression, which is interesting because as you're all well aware, Justin Trudeau
00:07:53.240 couldn't give a tinker's damn when it involves freedom of expression for you and me.
00:07:57.720 You want to protest vaccine mandates here in Canada and do it in a peaceful way? No,
00:08:02.760 here's the emergencies act for you. In 2017, Justin Trudeau charged a Saskatchewan man for
00:08:09.080 uttering threats against Justin Trudeau on social media. It wasn't freedom of expression for that
00:08:14.120 Saskatchewan man to utter threats against Trudeau, but it's totally acceptable for people to label the
00:08:20.440 Indian Consul General in Toronto as the killer of a Sikh man in Surrey, British Columbia. That's some
00:08:27.880 freedom of expression for you right there, isn't it? And in December of 2020, Justin Trudeau weighed
00:08:33.480 into the ongoing Sikh farmer protest in India and said that Canada supports their right to freely protest. 0.73
00:08:41.080 Again, the hypocrisy is outrageous. It's as if Trudeau will do anything to maintain his support among
00:08:47.160 Sikhs in Canada, even if it means showing himself to be an utter hypocrite in front of the rest of us. 0.99
00:08:53.720 But we really have to dive deeper into Justin Trudeau's close ties with Calistani factions in Canada. 0.90
00:08:59.000 But during his disgraced trip to India, where he tried to dress up once again as an Indian Maharaja,
00:09:05.720 he decided to invite a convicted attempted murderer of a Punjabi minister in Canada to this Indian
00:09:13.720 state dinner. His name was Jasbal Atwal. Here he is taking a picture with Justin Trudeau's wife,
00:09:19.480 Sophie Trudeau, who herself also wanted to get in on the mix of dressing up like an Indian.
00:09:24.440 Of course, Trudeau didn't want to take any responsibility for the invitation to an Indian
00:09:29.400 state dinner on Indian soil of an attempted murderer of an Indian politician. Something that
00:09:35.160 is not discussed by many people and not known by many Canadians is that in 2014, before Justin Trudeau
00:09:41.160 became the prime minister, the nomination of Harjit Sajjan, the future defense minister and now
00:09:48.600 international development minister, caused uproar among the moderate Sikh population in British
00:09:53.720 Columbia, triggering the resignation of many Sikhs in the Liberal Party in the province. Harjit Sajjan is
00:10:02.680 accused of being backed by the World Sikh Organization, a group that openly advocates for Calistan. According to
00:10:10.200 the business standard in 2014, a Sikh moderate in British Columbia named Kashmir Dhaliwal said this
00:10:17.080 about Justin Trudeau. The Liberal Party, especially Justin, is in bed with extremist and fundamental
00:10:23.640 groups. That's why I decided to leave the Liberal Party. That was back in 2014, before he became prime
00:10:29.560 minister. But it gets even crazier. Despite Sikh extremists being behind the worst terrorist attack in 0.98
00:10:35.960 Canadian history, the Air India bombing, in 2019, Justin Trudeau quietly removed any reference to Sikh
00:10:42.680 extremism in the 2018 report on the terrorist threat to Canada. In this 2018 terrorist report threat to
00:10:51.640 Canada, there was a giant 2019 update in blue at the very top of this document. And take a look at this
00:10:58.200 update here. The government's communication of threats must be clear, concise, and cannot be perceived as
00:11:04.040 maligning any groups. As we continue this review, it is apparent that in outlining a threat, it must be
00:11:09.640 clearly linked to an ideology rather than a community. The government will carefully select
00:11:15.160 terminology that focuses on the intent of ideology. Going forward, the Government of Canada is committed
00:11:20.280 to applying a bias-free approach to the terminology used to describe any threats inspired by ideology or
00:11:26.520 groups. Now this is to say nothing at all over Jagmeet Singh, the man that is basically responsible for
00:11:32.520 keeping Justin Trudeau in power. The man propping up Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister. Jagmeet Singh isn't
00:11:38.120 even allowed to enter India. They've banned him from entering India. He has since denounced Talwinder
00:11:44.520 Parmar and has accepted that he is responsible for the Air India bombing. But before that, before he made
00:11:50.280 that acceptance, he had denied that Talwinder Parmar was responsible for this bombing. Before Jagmeet Singh entered
00:11:56.680 politics, he was a part of the Sikh activist network, speaking at Calistani events in California and
00:12:02.840 London. According to their literature, the Sikh activist network, in their words, pledged to fight
00:12:09.080 the oppressive domination of the fascist Indian machinery. There's no doubt that Justin Trudeau and
00:12:16.040 Jagmeet Singh pander to the Sikh base. They are clearly a powerful voting bloc in this country. But the
00:12:23.160 reality is, why are we willing to threaten the relationship of a key ally in India just to make
00:12:29.480 sure that our leaders can stay in power? Is it really worth alienating India when we're dealing with a 1.00
00:12:35.240 very serious and growing threat of China? Furthermore, it's time our leaders got some courage and said what 0.99
00:12:40.840 needs to be said. These are sectarian battles that Canada has no obligation to host. When people come to 0.92
00:12:47.480 Canada, they need to realize that religious harmony is part of our society. We live amongst one another
00:12:53.880 with tolerance and respect. If you have an issue with your home government or your home country,
00:12:59.640 take it up with your home government or home country. Instead of pandering to ethnic groups for votes, 0.82
00:13:06.040 why can't our leaders stand up and say, actually, our reputation as a nation, as a reliable partner on the
00:13:12.840 world stage is more important than your sectarian gripe from a far away distant land? Violence from
00:13:19.960 any side should easily be condemned. The depiction of assassinations and murders of political leaders
00:13:26.920 should easily be condemned. We should not have to host these displays at the expense of our own
00:13:31.800 reputation. All it does is hurt Canadians. But as of right now, it looks as though things are only going
00:13:37.160 to get worse. Reminder to let me know in the comments your answer to the comment question. Is Justin Trudeau
00:13:42.600 too close to Calistani factions in Canada? All right, that's going to do it for us today on the show. 0.98
00:13:47.640 Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Rachio.