Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Government want to hold private talks with India about the Hardeep Singh Najjar case, but India won t allow it. India kicks out a diplomat, cancels visas, and threatens to kick out 41 Canadian diplomats, but Canada still won t drop the charges against India.
00:00:00.000It is so ironic now that finally Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the liberal government want to take talks with India privately.
00:00:09.420Let's just talk behind the scenes, Modi. Let's make everything cool.
00:00:13.260Let's drink a cup of chamomile tea and just lay down and take a nap.
00:00:17.140Let's let's cool everything down. It's so stupid that the liberals are going with this right now.
00:00:23.340I disagree with my kind of co-host, Daniel Boardman, on this issue.
00:00:27.300He thinks it's good that the liberals are wanting to talk privately.
00:00:30.000And I don't deny that it's good to want to start making talks private between the Indian and Canadian government.
00:00:35.340Stop this overheated nonsense over whether or not the Indian government assassinated Hardeep Singh Najjar and the Canadian government released information.
00:00:43.620But the Indian government's doing super bad things and the Canada kicks out a diplomat.
00:00:47.500Then India kicks out a diplomat, cancels visas.
00:00:49.920Then Canada won't drop its accusations.
00:00:52.340And India proposes to kick 41 diplomats out.
00:00:56.280Obviously, we should have been talking in private from the start.
00:00:59.380My only issue, and this is where I would disagree with Daniel a little bit, is that I think that there needs to be a statement from the liberal government.
00:01:18.580What he could do, though, is at least make some overtures that we should talk about extremism and security issues between our two countries and be able to come to an understanding about the unique national security issues that face India and Canada.
00:01:33.800That would be a good way of indicating that the liberal government is maybe open to talking about the Kalistani issue in Canada and that the issues that India has with Canada effectively enabling people who want to break up India in our country and fund it, train people on how to shoot firearms, blew up planes back in the day, whatnot.
00:01:53.560That would have actually made a good overture before starting private talks.
00:01:57.860What the liberal government just did now, and I put this out in tweet, where it's like Justin Trudeau, with his first accusation against India, just comes and slaps Modi across the face.
00:02:07.060And then once Modi slaps him back, Justin Trudeau slaps him and says, hey, we should work.
00:02:10.260We have really close ties, and we should make our ties tighter, and then slaps him again.
00:02:14.460And then when Modi comes to retaliate with his 41 diplomats being kicked out of the country thing, then Justin Trudeau runs behind Melanie Jolie, and she's like, maybe we should talk privately about this and our mutual interests in this whole issue.
00:02:28.900Like, goodness, guys, this couldn't be more tone deaf if you tried.
00:02:33.060Can we please just have a little bit of some adult talk publicly before we go to the private session?
00:02:39.600Because right now what happened was is that if India agrees to this private talk, they look weak.
00:02:45.180They look like they've some – like, again, this is where accusing a country and then saying you should participate in the investigation is so foolish.
00:02:52.920Because if they take part in the investigation, if they cooperate right after you said they probably did it, everyone's going to think that they're cooperating because they probably did and they want to keep it quiet.
00:03:01.400Now when you do private talks and if India agrees to it, they look like they're going to let you get away with what you just did.
00:03:07.420You have to give them a slight olive branch.
00:03:10.520You can just be an olive leaf that, hey, well, let's talk about India's issues with extremism and what the Canadian government can do to ensure better national security for India from our shores.
00:03:24.140But Justin Trudeau and the liberal government doesn't have the ego for it.
00:03:27.060So frankly, I don't see India being at fault by leaking the fact that they want private talks and are just basically saying no.
00:03:34.300Or at least, like, I think India probably will engage in private talks at some point.
00:03:37.980But I think that they were not right as much as I understand why they took this opportunity to just embarrass the liberal government because they kind of deserve it a little bit.