The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Is Justin Trudeau Admitting Defeat to India？

00:00:00.000 Well, it appears as if Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has admitted defeat on the fight

00:00:05.060 that he started with India. It was just last week that he flew home from the G20 hosted in India,

00:00:10.260 and then the very next day stood up in Parliament to accuse the Indian government of potentially

00:00:14.940 being involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Najjar, a Calistani activist in Surrey, BC.

00:00:20.940 It was really bizarre because Justin Trudeau made the accusation in Parliament and then provided no

00:00:25.480 evidence. And then over the next week and a few days, Justin Trudeau sort of oscillated between

00:00:29.900 saying that he had credible allegations and credible evidence. And whenever journalists

00:00:34.200 would ask him for the evidence, he seemed to just dodge and then go back to his previous position

00:00:38.060 that I have credible allegations. Don't worry, I have stuff. And I would admit that the US diplomats

00:00:43.660 did come out and say, hey, the Five Eyes intelligence agencies gave Canada information that potentially

00:00:48.640 shows that India might have been involved in the killing of Najjar. But it never seemed like the

00:00:53.900 Five Eyes ever wanted Justin Trudeau to make this accusation or that they believed in their

00:00:58.160 evidence enough that this is just something that Canada should throw out there. They probably just

00:01:02.300 proposed that this is a possibility among others. And because Justin Trudeau's liberals are fairly

00:01:07.440 Calistani friendly, they immediately came out with the accusation against India. I'm not sure if

00:01:12.160 Justin Trudeau thinks this is a viable campaign strategy or his ego is so hurt from all of his terrible

00:01:17.640 visits to India that he just wants to go after Modi and the BJP with this. But to put it

00:01:23.500 shortly, it was a disaster. He looked terrible. And this is not how you treat allies. If India did 1.00

00:01:30.040 kill Najjar, and there is still that possibility, maybe we just don't have the evidence to prove it.

00:01:34.300 If you can't prove something, especially against an ally, you don't say anything. Because if you

00:01:39.280 can't prove it, you just stick to the back channels, you talk to them behind the scenes,

00:01:43.740 you don't come out with an allegation with no evidence to back it up. And when I say that Justin Trudeau

00:01:48.360 seems to be admitting defeat. Just today when he was in Montreal, reported by many Canadian media

00:01:53.600 outlets and Indian media outlets, Justin Trudeau is now talking about how he wants to strengthen ties

00:01:58.360 with the Indian government and how special and like significant the relationship between India and

00:02:04.000 Canada is. This effectively signals that he's not going to push this Najjar matter any further.

00:02:09.200 I think Justin Trudeau looked really bad in front of the Indian Canadian

00:02:12.460 community by basically conflating Calistani extremists with Sikh Canadians. Calistanis are 0.99

00:02:19.440 not Sikhs. Sikhs, they make up a tiny, tiny portion of the Sikh community. It is a small group of people.

00:02:27.260 It'd be like saying that Catholic Canadians are supportive of the IRA. You don't do that. That's

00:02:32.080 an incredibly stupid thing to say. So he's been probably losing a lot of Indian supporters over this, 1.00

00:02:37.120 both Sikh, Hindu and Indian Christians. And I think that Justin Trudeau is effectively

00:02:42.380 done with this Najjar matter because you don't start stressing how good the relationship between

00:02:46.880 India and Canada are and how we need to strengthen ties and how we have such a great relationship.

00:02:52.420 He did sprinkle in there like, oh, I hope Indian, you know, gets them involved in this, 1.00

00:02:57.020 in this investigation about Najjar's death. Even though he put that in, you don't put those other

00:03:02.000 more positive, warm messages into your statement if you're not going to drop it. Because what's he,

00:03:07.140 what's he going to do? Oh, we have such a great relationship with India. And the next day,

00:03:10.120 like India killed him. Like he's obviously not going to talk about it anymore because it's not

00:03:14.340 worth it. I guarantee the Secretary of State of the US, Anthony Blinken, and probably other Canadian

00:03:19.780 and American officials went to Justin Trudeau and said, you got to shut up. You can't prove anything.

00:03:25.280 So there's no point in talking. Plus, as more information comes out, it looks like the RCMP

00:03:29.720 and Surrey police completely bungled this investigation. They argued over jurisdiction after Najjar

00:03:35.620 died for several hours, basically allowing whoever perpetrated the killing to get away with it.

00:03:40.940 And as more information comes out too, I'm not saying this is what happened. It kind of looks

00:03:45.200 like a gang hit, whether the Indian government hired some Sikh gang to kill Najjar, or this is some sort

00:03:50.500 of drug turf war, because there's a lot of Calistanis involved in the drug trade in Canada, 0.96

00:03:55.900 because, you know, the average Sikh does not like the Calistani movement. They tend to involve 1.00

00:04:00.280 themselves in illegal activity to fund their extremist activities. But like, but I want the

00:04:05.860 why I think that really needs to be highlighted. This whole situation would have never happened

00:04:09.520 if over the 40 years, the Calistani movement has been sort of dug into Canada. If we took them 1.00

00:04:15.320 seriously and cracked down on them calling for violence, trying to smuggle illegal weapons into

00:04:20.200 Canada, their drug gangs, as well as trying to promote people going back to India to involve them

00:04:25.400 themselves in extremist activities, we would have never been in this situation at all.

00:04:29.520 If India killed Najjar, that's bad. We should not have allies whacking people on our sovereign

00:04:35.560 territory. At the same time, we shouldn't have extremist movements being harbored in Canada.

00:04:40.640 It's ridiculous. We would obviously not like it if in the 70s, after the FLQ had killed Canadian 0.77

00:04:47.380 officials and were blowing up libraries and post offices and other government buildings, if they

00:04:53.000 went over to India, and they were set up shop in New Delhi, and like the Indian government's like,

00:04:58.580 well, we don't care if they might have been killing people or they're training people on how to shoot

00:05:02.640 firearms and sending them back to Canada. It's not our business. They have free speech. Obviously,

00:05:07.180 I'm a big free speech guy. Putting up posters on a supposedly religious building calling for Indian 0.97

00:05:13.800 officials to die is probably not free speech. That's calling for someone's death. That is incitement to

00:05:19.900 violence. That has nothing to do with portraying political views that people might disagree with.

00:05:25.300 This is just saying this person needs to die. We should obviously not tolerate these people. 0.82

00:05:29.700 And if we never tolerated them from the start, the Indian government would never have an incentive 0.99

00:05:34.160 to kill someone on Canadian soil. We don't know if they did. If they did, it's still bad. But we

00:05:38.640 wouldn't even be in this discussion if we took extremism seriously. And this is not the only extremism

00:05:43.280 issue that Canada, and especially Justin Trudeau, hasn't taken seriously. Literally, the IRGC

00:05:48.800 killed over 150 or so, I think it was over 200 Canadians, on flight PS752 that flew over Iran.

00:05:55.660 The Iranian government obviously blew up that plane intentionally, and it was the IRGC that did it, 0.96

00:06:01.400 the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the hardcore terrorist arm of the Iranian regime government.

00:06:09.140 After that killing happened, the Canadian government has still refused to list the IRGC as a blacklisted

00:06:15.460 terror group. And because they're not listed as a terror group, it makes it way easier for Iran to

00:06:20.840 funnel money through Canada, that we have a massive issue with money laundering in Canada. And that goes

00:06:26.560 for Islamist groups, that goes for Calistani groups, and that goes for any other sort of drug group, 0.65

00:06:32.040 Tamil Tigers, any sort of weird separatist group. It's always going to pick Canada to funnel money 1.00

00:06:38.200 through rather than the US, because the US actually takes money laundering for extremism very seriously,

00:06:43.640 and we don't. But this is a situation where Justin Trudeau looked absolutely terrible. He's proving

00:06:49.300 that he is not a very serious actor on the world stage. And this is, I mentioned this before on

00:06:54.760 Indian TV interviews I've done, it's, Justin Trudeau is a cultural Marxist, and that's why I think he

00:07:00.920 picked this fight. It could be about polling numbers too, could be about his big ego. I think it's just

00:07:05.740 that he's a deeply ideological cultural Marxist. He's not like an economic Marxist, but in terms of

00:07:11.060 cultural Marxism, he loves to break everything down into oppressor and oppressed. So when he sees that

00:07:16.260 Sikh Kallisanis are a tiny, tiny minority in Punjab, and especially overall in India, they're like the 1.00

00:07:23.240 smallest proportion of the population, and they're in their tiny minority in the Sikh population, especially

00:07:29.140 in India, that he's thinking, these people must be hard done and oppressed, and it's the Indian

00:07:33.680 government oppressing them. That's how he thinks about every situation. And he also has this very weird

00:07:37.980 radical chic approach to foreign policy, radical chic being this idea that very wealthy and elite

00:07:44.480 political and business types sort of embrace crazy movements and different groups in order to seem

00:07:51.440 fashionable. You see this in the 1970s, with all these sort of moronic leftist wealthy individuals 0.98

00:07:58.320 embracing the Black Panther Party, an openly racist communist group. And now you have Justin Trudeau 0.98

00:08:04.220 embracing Kallisanis, or at least enabling them going soft on terror groups attacking Israel and 0.97

00:08:09.980 other Western countries, you know, cozying up to Iran and China and all these other bad actors. 0.99

00:08:15.380 And he thinks he's just being so high minded and progressive. And he just he can see through the

00:08:20.200 whole foreign policy game. And he knows who are the real good guys or he or some people are

00:08:25.520 misunderstood. And only someone as intelligent as Justin Trudeau can see how misunderstood they are.

00:08:29.700 And that's where despite all the violent rhetoric that comes out of the Calistani community or 1.00

00:08:34.340 movement, Justin Trudeau looks at them and say, Oh, look at these hard done, oppressed freedom

00:08:38.940 fighters. Oh, come here and just gives them a big old hug. This is effectively what his government's

00:08:43.380 done. But I'm happy that this is going to be this is a tension that's probably being toned down now,

00:08:50.140 just Canada does not have any business getting into a fight with India over this unless we have 0.98

00:08:55.020 smoking gun evidence in which I think even that I don't think you come up publicly and accuse India,

00:08:59.780 I think you do this through back channels. Regardless, that's it for me today. And I hope

00:09:04.400 everyone has a fantastic rest of their week.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 29, 2023

Is Justin Trudeau Admitting Defeat to India？

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