Juno News - May 05, 2019


The Trudeau government's shameless approach to public safety

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Sikh Kalistani Justin Trudeau
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The Liberal government got a lot of slack for changing a public safety report for seemingly political partisan reasons, and now they're at it again. It was just the other week that the government got criticism for revising the annual Public Safety Report on terrorist threats to Canada to remove references to Sikh extremism. So you d think they would have learned their lesson.

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00:00:00.000 The Liberal government got a lot of slack for changing a public safety report for seemingly
00:00:15.020 political partisan reasons and now they're at it again. It was just the other week when the
00:00:20.800 Liberal government got a lot of criticism for revising the annual public safety report on
00:00:25.220 terrorist threats to Canada to remove references to Sikh Kalistani extremism. A number of activists
00:00:32.300 got pretty upset in the Sikh community and said, why have you put this in this report about threats
00:00:37.640 that Canada is facing? Justin Trudeau and others will not be allowed to march and participate
00:00:42.480 in our various cultural events and holy days and celebrations unless you take this out.
00:00:47.840 And then rather troublingly, the Liberals did take it out just a day before big celebrations in BC
00:00:53.640 that Justin Trudeau was set to attend. It certainly looked like it was vote pandering and incredibly
00:01:00.060 reckless approach to public safety issues and it was decried by a lot of experts and national security
00:01:05.780 analysts across the country. So you'd think they would have learned their lesson, right? Wrong.
00:01:11.140 Now they've made another change. This one is just unbelievable because when you look at the actual
00:01:17.420 security landscape, Sikh extremism does not seem to be a major issue that Canada is facing right now.
00:01:24.640 It hasn't resulted in recent attacks and deaths and so forth in our country. But if security experts
00:01:31.420 thought it was necessary to include a small reference to it, which is all this was in the report,
00:01:35.720 it was a pretty small reference to it, then so be it. That is what people monitoring the intelligence
00:01:41.060 situation determined. The one thing we cannot deny though is that there is a challenge with radical
00:01:46.000 Sunni Islam, correct? I mean we have dozens of people who in recent years have gone abroad to
00:01:51.400 wage jihad with ISIS and other terror groups. They've come back to Canada. We've been discussing this in
00:01:56.580 the news a great deal. That is established fact, is it not? And now we have dozens of people,
00:02:01.840 at least 60 of them, who are walking around on Canadian soil. ISIS returnees. Only a couple of them
00:02:07.480 have been prosecuted. We're having a whole national conversation about that, right? Well apparently
00:02:12.120 memory doesn't serve me well, and apparently that just didn't happen or something. Because
00:02:16.440 this report previously, both the original version and the version that was revised to take out the
00:02:22.060 Sikh reference, it did say one of the biggest threats to Canada right now was violent Sunni Islamist 0.80
00:02:28.620 ideology. Now it's pretty clear that Islamist and violent, you know, it's making it clear they don't 1.00
00:02:34.340 mean just regular Sunnis, they mean Islamists, which is a very extreme radical interpretation,
00:02:40.360 and violent, meaning it's not even having those thoughts, but people going about and doing this
00:02:44.920 stuff violently. So it was a pretty narrow description there. Not at all maligning all
00:02:50.640 members of Sunni Islam in Canada. Well, the report went offline, it was changed, and now it has taken
00:02:57.480 those references out. And now more security analysts are looking at this, not the ones in
00:03:03.640 government of course, but the people who are able to talk freely about this saying, what is going on?
00:03:09.080 Two big changes to this document, seemingly for what? For partisan reasons, to win favor with
00:03:15.440 different voting groups. It's incredibly frustrating to see this happen, not once, not twice. After the
00:03:21.240 government was called out and shamed for the first time, shamelessly, they go back and do it again.
00:03:27.480 You think it's another thing that belongs to that? So you're basically the first gutenberg 0.97
00:03:42.540 panelist, because I don't want to get sure this feels pretty crazy. And I think that's the
00:03:49.340 way I do that. But I will never stop looking. I like to discuss this problem perhaps something
00:03:50.480 What am I wrong with? So as long as something like shaking miracles we are gonna be
00:03:53.780 something like...