HANNAFORD Four things that make no sense about Trudeau's India allegations
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Summary
Jagmeet Singh, the new Prime Minister of Canada, has been accused of being responsible for the murder of a Canadian man in India. He has denied it, but there is enough evidence to charge the killer, and he needs to shut up about it.
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The other Canadian we can ever remember being assassinated by a foreign power was a gentleman
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called Gerald Bull, who was working with Iraq to develop super-long guns. He was killed
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in Belgium by the Israelis in 1990. So it's a very, very rare occurrence, Corey.
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Well, it's rare for Canadians to be involved. I mean, I think it's sort of stuck in trade
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if you're dealing in Eastern Europe or South America, but certainly this is an unusual
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incident. But the Prime Minister, if asked, would probably say, well, I didn't actually
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accuse them. I said there was credible allegations with a potential link. Okay, you have just
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accused them, sir. You can't split hairs like that. And I think the overall takeaway from
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this is that if the Prime Minister of Canada has evidence that this took place, there should
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be charges. And in the absence of charges, he should shut up. Because there are much bigger
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things going on here, not the least of which is developing Canadian trade with India. But
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in the big global picture, these people are our allies, whether he likes it or not, whether
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Mr. Singh, like Jagmeet, likes it or not. India and Canada are on the same side. They're both
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democracies. They both aspire to the same things. And they're both worried, frankly, about the
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rise of China. So if you are going to irritate your strongest allies, you better have the evidence
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to back it up. This was reckless and irresponsible and, frankly, takes idiocy to a level that, frankly,
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in the last couple of decades, only Mr. Trudeau has ever attained.
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Well, you saw the scenes from the G20 in India, very cool between Prime Minister Modri and Trudeau.
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And it hadn't even been made public then. But the relationship between India and Canada
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is now in tatters. You remember Trudeau's first visit there when he embarrassed everybody