Is Justin Trudeau Admitting Defeat to India？
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Summary
Hardeep Singh Najjar, a Sikh-Canadian activist, was murdered in the early morning hours of December 31st, 2014 in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. On the day of his death, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of being involved in the killing, but provided no evidence to back it up.
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Well, it appears as if Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has admitted defeat on the fight
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that he started with India. It was just last week that he flew home from the G20 hosted in India,
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and then the very next day stood up in Parliament to accuse the Indian government of potentially
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being involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Najjar, a Calistani activist in Surrey, BC.
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It was really bizarre because Justin Trudeau made the accusation in Parliament and then provided no
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evidence. And then over the next week and a few days, Justin Trudeau sort of oscillated between
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saying that he had credible allegations and credible evidence. And whenever journalists
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would ask him for the evidence, he seemed to just dodge and then go back to his previous position
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that I have credible allegations. Don't worry, I have stuff. And I would admit that the US diplomats
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did come out and say, hey, the Five Eyes intelligence agencies gave Canada information that potentially
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shows that India might have been involved in the killing of Najjar. But it never seemed like the
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Five Eyes ever wanted Justin Trudeau to make this accusation or that they believed in their
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evidence enough that this is just something that Canada should throw out there. They probably just
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proposed that this is a possibility among others. And because Justin Trudeau's liberals are fairly
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Calistani friendly, they immediately came out with the accusation against India. I'm not sure if
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Justin Trudeau thinks this is a viable campaign strategy or his ego is so hurt from all of his terrible
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visits to India that he just wants to go after Modi and the BJP with this. But to put it
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shortly, it was a disaster. He looked terrible. And this is not how you treat allies. If India did
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kill Najjar, and there is still that possibility, maybe we just don't have the evidence to prove it.
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If you can't prove something, especially against an ally, you don't say anything. Because if you
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can't prove it, you just stick to the back channels, you talk to them behind the scenes,
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you don't come out with an allegation with no evidence to back it up. And when I say that Justin Trudeau
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seems to be admitting defeat. Just today when he was in Montreal, reported by many Canadian media
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outlets and Indian media outlets, Justin Trudeau is now talking about how he wants to strengthen ties
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with the Indian government and how special and like significant the relationship between India and
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Canada is. This effectively signals that he's not going to push this Najjar matter any further.
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I think Justin Trudeau looked really bad in front of the Indian Canadian
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community by basically conflating Calistani extremists with Sikh Canadians. Calistanis are
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not Sikhs. Sikhs, they make up a tiny, tiny portion of the Sikh community. It is a small group of people.
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It'd be like saying that Catholic Canadians are supportive of the IRA. You don't do that. That's
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an incredibly stupid thing to say. So he's been probably losing a lot of Indian supporters over this,
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both Sikh, Hindu and Indian Christians. And I think that Justin Trudeau is effectively
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done with this Najjar matter because you don't start stressing how good the relationship between
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India and Canada are and how we need to strengthen ties and how we have such a great relationship.
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He did sprinkle in there like, oh, I hope Indian, you know, gets them involved in this,
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in this investigation about Najjar's death. Even though he put that in, you don't put those other
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more positive, warm messages into your statement if you're not going to drop it. Because what's he,
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what's he going to do? Oh, we have such a great relationship with India. And the next day,
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like India killed him. Like he's obviously not going to talk about it anymore because it's not
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worth it. I guarantee the Secretary of State of the US, Anthony Blinken, and probably other Canadian
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and American officials went to Justin Trudeau and said, you got to shut up. You can't prove anything.
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So there's no point in talking. Plus, as more information comes out, it looks like the RCMP
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and Surrey police completely bungled this investigation. They argued over jurisdiction after Najjar
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died for several hours, basically allowing whoever perpetrated the killing to get away with it.
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And as more information comes out too, I'm not saying this is what happened. It kind of looks
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like a gang hit, whether the Indian government hired some Sikh gang to kill Najjar, or this is some sort
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of drug turf war, because there's a lot of Calistanis involved in the drug trade in Canada,
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because, you know, the average Sikh does not like the Calistani movement. They tend to involve
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themselves in illegal activity to fund their extremist activities. But like, but I want the
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why I think that really needs to be highlighted. This whole situation would have never happened
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if over the 40 years, the Calistani movement has been sort of dug into Canada. If we took them
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seriously and cracked down on them calling for violence, trying to smuggle illegal weapons into
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Canada, their drug gangs, as well as trying to promote people going back to India to involve them
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themselves in extremist activities, we would have never been in this situation at all.
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If India killed Najjar, that's bad. We should not have allies whacking people on our sovereign
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territory. At the same time, we shouldn't have extremist movements being harbored in Canada.
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It's ridiculous. We would obviously not like it if in the 70s, after the FLQ had killed Canadian
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officials and were blowing up libraries and post offices and other government buildings, if they
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went over to India, and they were set up shop in New Delhi, and like the Indian government's like,
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well, we don't care if they might have been killing people or they're training people on how to shoot
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firearms and sending them back to Canada. It's not our business. They have free speech. Obviously,
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I'm a big free speech guy. Putting up posters on a supposedly religious building calling for Indian
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officials to die is probably not free speech. That's calling for someone's death. That is incitement to
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violence. That has nothing to do with portraying political views that people might disagree with.
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This is just saying this person needs to die. We should obviously not tolerate these people.
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And if we never tolerated them from the start, the Indian government would never have an incentive
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to kill someone on Canadian soil. We don't know if they did. If they did, it's still bad. But we
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wouldn't even be in this discussion if we took extremism seriously. And this is not the only extremism
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issue that Canada, and especially Justin Trudeau, hasn't taken seriously. Literally, the IRGC
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killed over 150 or so, I think it was over 200 Canadians, on flight PS752 that flew over Iran.
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The Iranian government obviously blew up that plane intentionally, and it was the IRGC that did it,
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the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the hardcore terrorist arm of the Iranian regime government.
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After that killing happened, the Canadian government has still refused to list the IRGC as a blacklisted
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terror group. And because they're not listed as a terror group, it makes it way easier for Iran to
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funnel money through Canada, that we have a massive issue with money laundering in Canada. And that goes
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for Islamist groups, that goes for Calistani groups, and that goes for any other sort of drug group,
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Tamil Tigers, any sort of weird separatist group. It's always going to pick Canada to funnel money
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through rather than the US, because the US actually takes money laundering for extremism very seriously,
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and we don't. But this is a situation where Justin Trudeau looked absolutely terrible. He's proving
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that he is not a very serious actor on the world stage. And this is, I mentioned this before on
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Indian TV interviews I've done, it's, Justin Trudeau is a cultural Marxist, and that's why I think he
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picked this fight. It could be about polling numbers too, could be about his big ego. I think it's just
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that he's a deeply ideological cultural Marxist. He's not like an economic Marxist, but in terms of
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cultural Marxism, he loves to break everything down into oppressor and oppressed. So when he sees that
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Sikh Kallisanis are a tiny, tiny minority in Punjab, and especially overall in India, they're like the
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smallest proportion of the population, and they're in their tiny minority in the Sikh population, especially
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in India, that he's thinking, these people must be hard done and oppressed, and it's the Indian
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government oppressing them. That's how he thinks about every situation. And he also has this very weird
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radical chic approach to foreign policy, radical chic being this idea that very wealthy and elite
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political and business types sort of embrace crazy movements and different groups in order to seem
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fashionable. You see this in the 1970s, with all these sort of moronic leftist wealthy individuals
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embracing the Black Panther Party, an openly racist communist group. And now you have Justin Trudeau
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embracing Kallisanis, or at least enabling them going soft on terror groups attacking Israel and
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other Western countries, you know, cozying up to Iran and China and all these other bad actors.
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And he thinks he's just being so high minded and progressive. And he just he can see through the
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whole foreign policy game. And he knows who are the real good guys or he or some people are
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misunderstood. And only someone as intelligent as Justin Trudeau can see how misunderstood they are.
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And that's where despite all the violent rhetoric that comes out of the Calistani community or
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movement, Justin Trudeau looks at them and say, Oh, look at these hard done, oppressed freedom
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fighters. Oh, come here and just gives them a big old hug. This is effectively what his government's
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done. But I'm happy that this is going to be this is a tension that's probably being toned down now,
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just Canada does not have any business getting into a fight with India over this unless we have
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smoking gun evidence in which I think even that I don't think you come up publicly and accuse India,
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I think you do this through back channels. Regardless, that's it for me today. And I hope