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We rarely hear anything thoughtful or coherent from Jagmeet Singh, the NDP Leader who is presently exploiting his control over the federal balance of power in Canada. The Trudeau Liberals cannot continue to rule Canada without the backing of the NDP parliamentarians under Singh’s command. Instead of trying to use his political influence to improve the lives of average Canadians, Singh is investing his considerable political capital into advancing the cause of Sikh separatism in India.

In the FirstReport Indian news clip below, Singh is described as a “self-declared Khalistani.” A minority element of the Sikh population in India and Canada supports an independent Khalistan in India’s largely-Sikh Punjab region. Trudeau has played along in very dangerous ways with Singh’s preoccupation with the Sikh independence movement.

Under Justin Trudeau’s watch, Canada is reported to have become a very active military training ground for the militia of the Sikh independence movement. The details of this history are outlined below by the news reader at News 18 in India. The top person in overseeing these menacing development has been the late Nardeep Singh Nijjar. Trudeau has formally attributed Nijjar’s murder in Canada to the government of India. By announcing this allegation in Parliament, Trudeau chose the most inflammatory way possible to present his government’s position.

CTV News has reported that before his murder, Nijjar was meeting every week with members of Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada’s extension of the CIA. See this.

Trudeau’s position may have some roots in the designs of the US intelligence agencies. The neocon war hawks that dominate these agencies might welcome a clash between Canada, a NATO member, and the Indian government of Narendra Modi. To the great advantage of the Indian economy, Modi has been cozying up to Russia and China in taking a leadership role in the fast-expanding BRICS movement. The war already effectively underway in the Ukraine region between NATO and Russia is already transforming Canada’s arctic region into the potential site of heavily weaponized conflict. Canada and Russia are arctic neighbours.

Whatever political mileage Singh, Trudeau and the NATO war hawks may think they are deriving from the India-Canada split, this antagonism is not good for average people. It is not good for the people of India and it is certainly not good for the people of Canada.

As a result of this clash, Canadians are now prohibited from getting visas to visit India. If Canada was to repeat this prohibition on Indian visitations to Canada, it would have major consequences across a number of fronts. One of these consequences would fall on the large number of Indian university students that study in Canada creating a major source of income for post-secondary institutions.

Canada is not in the same league as India in terms of global interactions. India is a major world power whose quick-growing economy overwhelms that of drug-ridden, gang-ridden Canada, a country that, under the Trudeau-Singh alliance, is leading the world in government-assisted suicides.

As the Indian journalist Palki Sharma points out, when Justin Trudeau’s father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, flirted with supporting the separatist politics of an independent Khalistan, it ended up in the bombing in 1985 of Air India Flight 182 over the waters adjacent to Ireland.

Young Trudeau is once again following in the footsteps of his father. Trudeau Jr. presently is following his dad’s lead in going to war with the oil and gas economy of Alberta. In this autumn of 2023, the current PM is once again following in his father’s wake. Junior is allowing Canada to be held ransom to the necessary opposition of the Indian government towards the minority of Sikhs backing the Khalistani independence movement. How deeply are Trudeau and Singh involved in the alleged use of Canada as a training ground for what might be described as Khalistani terrorism?

Jagmeet Singh owes Canadians a clear explanation of why he is putting his personal agenda for India ahead of the best interests of Canada and his fellow Canadians. Singh should start by distancing himself from Trudeau and pulling the plug on his Faustian bargain with the devil.

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Dr. Anthony Hall is editor in chief of the American Herald Tribune. He is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”.

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