Juno News - May 23, 2026


The real TRUTH about the Komagata Maru in 8 minutes


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00:00:00.000 The Komagata Maru is described as a national shame.
00:00:03.780 Every year, this century-old story is told. 0.61
00:00:06.480 The massive steamship SS Komagata Maru entered Vancouver Bay carrying 376 supposed immigrant families.
00:00:14.880 They were denied entry and sent back to India by racist Canadian border agents.
00:00:20.380 This tall tale is presented as proof that Canada is and always has been a racist country.
00:00:26.680 Justin Trudeau pandered every year during his tenure, taking the spotlight that he loved so much
00:00:32.940 to issue a breathless apology to Sikhs everywhere. Jagmeet Singh used it as evidence of systemic
00:00:39.680 racism and uses it today to justify modern mass immigration policy. Even Pierre Poliet calls it a
00:00:47.880 quote, shameless mark on our history. But what actually happened and what aren't they telling
00:00:53.040 you. The year is 1914. Canada, as we know it, is a new country. It hasn't even been 50 years since
00:00:59.700 John A. Macdonald laid the groundwork for a confederation. The population is only at 7.9
00:01:04.840 million. And the Komagatamaru, chartered by Punjabi businessman Baba Gurdit Singh,
00:01:10.180 no relation to Jagmeet Singh, is carrying 376 radical Sikh militants from India,
00:01:17.360 almost all adult men. But that raises the next question. What was their actual goal?
00:01:22.620 because once you begin to question that, the narrative that we had been told begins to fall
00:01:28.200 apart. You see, Canada's border agency at this time refused any immigrant vessel from anywhere
00:01:34.220 that did not arrive via a direct route. It was called the Continuous Journey Regulation and
00:01:40.320 especially on the eve of World War I, it was an effective strategy for avoiding stowaways
00:01:45.380 and extremists from entering the country. The ship intentionally did not sail directly from
00:01:51.420 India to Canada in order to contest immigration laws. It stopped repeatedly along the way,
00:01:57.820 stopping at Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, specifically to break the continuous journey
00:02:03.220 regulation. Most of the passengers aboard this ship and the organizers of the Komagatomaru journey
00:02:09.440 were part of a political extremist organization known as the Gadar Movement. Canada was an easy 1.00
00:02:16.060 target for the gadar radicals whose goal was to destroy the british empire through canada as a 1.00
00:02:21.780 young country with limited capacity and limited infrastructure to deal with a floating humanitarian
00:02:27.520 crisis they thought we were an easy target now here is what might surprise you to this day
00:02:33.280 global communists celebrate this event take this historical archive from the global marxist
00:02:40.200 authority who recalls the event with fond red fervor. Many of those aboard the Komagata Maru
00:02:46.760 were activists and sympathizers of the revolutionary and anti-colonial Gadar party.
00:02:51.880 This was a party organized to wage a national liberation struggle against British domination.
00:02:57.320 It was heavily influenced by socialist ideas. When the Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbor
00:03:03.240 there was a standoff lasting two months ending with Canada compassionately allowing 24 passengers
00:03:09.640 to disembark, mostly women and children, which notably increased the female Sikh population
00:03:14.960 in Canada at the time by around 800%. Fun fact, of the 2,342 Sikhs that were counted in the 1911
00:03:23.360 census, only three were women. The remaining 352 men stayed on board and were sent back to India.
00:03:30.960 Canadian authorities didn't hesitate, they didn't improvise, they enforced the law, and the illegal
00:03:36.680 migrants knew this was going to happen. The ship was forced to leave. No mass arrests, no police
00:03:42.760 brutality, no violence. Just a return trip back to British India. But the radicals aboard the 1.00
00:03:48.880 Komagatamaru, they didn't stop there. They began plotting again. This time, an overt terrorist
00:03:54.920 assassination of border agents in Vancouver. The one death in the entire Komagatamaru story in
00:04:00.940 Canada wasn't even a migrant. It was William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration official who
00:04:07.380 was killed in broad daylight. Last year, your tax money went to the funding of a Punjabi-language
00:04:14.880 movie honoring and celebrating the death of William Hopkinson. Interesting. The assassin Muah Singh
00:04:22.900 is regarded as a martyr among many Sikhs today. The city of New Westminster, British Columbia
00:04:28.720 officially declared that January 11th would be Mewa Singh Day.
00:04:34.640 The radicals aboard the Komagata Maru, their goal was never to integrate into Canada.
00:04:39.560 In fact, it was the opposite. 0.84
00:04:41.440 The Gadar movement was intentionally trying to undermine the Canadian and British war effort.
00:04:46.800 Look no further than the documented evidence of the Hindu-German conspiracy,
00:04:51.760 where German authorities worked alongside Gadar movement radicals in Canada and the United States
00:04:58.600 to ship arms to radicals in India on behalf of the Germans
00:05:03.340 to attack British officials and military personnel.
00:05:07.960 So think about this.
00:05:09.480 While our Canadian boys were over in France and in Western Europe getting slaughtered in the fields, 1.00
00:05:14.500 we had people from India entering our country, 0.98
00:05:18.080 working with the enemy to undermine the Allied war effort.
00:05:21.020 And we're supposed to honor these people as martyrs.
00:05:24.660 However, politicians today will breathlessly tell you 0.73
00:05:27.520 that the Komagata Maru story was a national shame and that Sikhs built Canada. Now the evidence of 1.00
00:05:34.000 course says otherwise, but you didn't need me to tell you that. According to the World Sikh 1.00
00:05:37.920 Organization itself, the population of Sikhs in Canada in the early 1900s was not millions,
00:05:44.080 not hundreds of thousands, not tens of thousands, and not a single percent. In 1911 the World Sikh
00:05:51.040 Organization reports that the Sikh population was two hundredths of a percent of the national
00:05:55.920 population. Just a couple thousand spread across the Canadian frontier. The political leaders in
00:06:01.380 our country today intentionally twist the facts of this story into morally blackmailing Canadians
00:06:07.220 towards their policies of mass immigration and extreme multicultural policies, leading directly
00:06:13.380 to their practice of refugee intakes, student visa extensions, and citizenship pipeline for
00:06:19.400 temporary foreign workers who become Liberal Party voters before being replaced at Tim Hortons by
00:06:25.400 the next wave of temporary foreign workers. Remembering the Komagata Maru as proof that
00:06:30.280 Canada has a racist past with racist laws is not just false, it's immoral. The real tragedy here
00:06:37.320 is the lesson that we learned nearly a hundred years after this incident. These laws were
00:06:42.340 originally in place to prevent the destruction of social cohesion in Canada, and ironically,
00:06:47.140 removing these laws has led to that social cohesion being destroyed. Over the past decade alone,
00:06:53.340 Canada has seen a huge increase in the number of Indian separatists. 0.91
00:06:56.900 And they're doing exactly what the passengers aboard the Koma Gautamaru in 1914 envisioned for themselves. 0.99
00:07:03.540 Evade the law, exploit Canada for revolutionary purposes, 0.58
00:07:07.780 manipulate the system, deal and sell illegal drugs and firearms,
00:07:11.880 cause rampant extortion crimes,
00:07:13.920 and continuous infighting in our streets over their foreign issues.
00:07:17.900 The truth of the matter is,
00:07:19.840 countries have borders and laws for a reason.
00:07:22.800 and enforcing them protects the country.
00:07:25.220 Apologizing for enforcement teaches the public to see borders as something shameful
00:07:30.020 and conditions us to accept the erosion of our sovereignty.
00:07:33.860 And as we all know, history is rarely as clean as the plaques would suggest.
00:07:38.320 There was a permanent Komagatumaru memorial on Vancouver's Coal Harbor,
00:07:42.580 one of the most esteemed waterfronts in the country.
00:07:45.440 Large steel red panels lined in rows and rows,
00:07:48.720 plaques illuminated by gold, a sign where their side of the story is engraved.
00:07:54.220 But is there any memorial for William Hopkinson,
00:07:57.180 the man who was shot dead in cold blood for enforcing the immigration laws at the time
00:08:01.980 against the Gadar movement and the passengers aboard the Komagatamaru?
00:08:07.100 Who remembers his name?
00:08:09.560 A man who died serving his king and country.
00:08:13.180 Meanwhile, the city of Vancouver also added Komagatamaru Place
00:08:17.720 as an honorary name at Canada Place.
00:08:20.640 These are permanent moral markers built into the city itself.
00:08:26.160 Talk about a national shame.