Documents expose Trudeau’s pro-Khalistan agenda, Chinese hand in Canada polls, more...

 

 

 

 

 

THE current India-Canada stand-off is being viewed as a consequence of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s petty domestic vote-bank politics. However, it seems, there is more to the story than that. Official Canadian documents make shocking revelations that make one suspect if Trudeau has been deliberately targeting India to deflect the attention of Canadians from Chinese interference in Canadian elections, divert the discourse from Pakistan backing Khalistani extremists in Canada, and shield the Khalistani extremists. Trudeau, whose ratings have been dwindling over his past terms as Prime Minister since 2015, has often faced accusations of violating the ethics law of Canada.

 

During his first term as Prime Minister of Canada, he earned the dubious distinction of being the first Canadian Prime Minister to have been found violating the ethics law of the country. After COVID-19 pandemic, he announced snap polls in 2021 and his Liberal Party returned to power narrowly. But, all through since 2015, discontent has been brewing against Trudeau, who has courted controversies and is on a shaky political pitch. There is a suspicion certain forces he has been courting possibly to win their support for his electoral campaign back home, are using his political desperation to further their goals. Given the contents of the official Canadian documents and the anti-India rants clubbed with frantic calls to the US, the UK, and Australia, there are reasons to believe that he is playing the game of deflection, diversion, and shielding the Khalistani extremists. Beyond having the history of giving safe shelter to Khalistani extremists, who resorted to terrorist activities, Trudeau has been making preposterous imputations against India since last year. However, while accusing India of interference, he has ignored that Canadian authorities have found China to be the ‘main perpetrator of foreign interference’ and Pakistan’s support to Khalistani extremists.

 

During a hearing before the Commissioner of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federation Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions on September 27, 2024, Canadian intelligence chief clearly stated that Pakistan’s influence was ‘directly related to support of Khalistani extremism’. The official transcript of that hearing quoted Vanessa Lloyd, Interim Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), as saying, “... engagement of Pakistan is consistently in balance with trying to reduce the influence of India..., and in this particular case, influence of Pakistan is directly related to support of Khalistani extremism”. But, Trudeau appears to be ignoring the intelligence chief of his own country. In the ‘initial report’ issued on May 3 earlier this year, the Foreign Interference Commission cited Canadian intelligence agencies and stated that ‘the People’s Republic of China stands out as a main perpetrator of foreign interference against Canada’. The CSIS viewed China as ‘the biggest threat to the Canadian electoral space by a significant margin’.

 

The report mentioned that the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a key Chinese Communist Party entity engaged in foreign interference, attempted to ‘control and influence the Chinese diaspora, shape international opinions, and influence politicians’ to support China’s policies. The UFWD has a budget in the billions of dollars. The report brought out that before the Canadian election, indicated that Chinese international students were put in a bus to the nomination process in support of Han Dong, a Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) candidate. Further, it mentioned, “... individuals associated with a known PRC proxy agent provided students with falsified documents to allow them to vote’. However, Trudeau did not remove Dong as his party’s candidate. Rather, Trudeau asked to what extent CSIS was certain that China was involved! “Mr. Trudeau did not feel there was sufficient or sufficiently credible information to justify removing Mr. Dong but considered that the matter would have to be revisited after the election. This incident makes clear the extent to which nomination contests can be gateways for foreign states who wish to interfere in our democratic process,” added the report. Interestingly, the report mentioned clearly that the PRC engaged in foreign interference activities ‘related to the 2019 and 2021 general elections’, which were the elections won by Trudeau’s party.

 

This is very curious. For, the same Trudeau who believes in some ‘intelligence inputs’ that do not amount to ‘evidence’ to target India, asked his own country’s intelligence agency to what extent was it certain about Chinese involvement in Canadian elections! This cements one’s suspicion that he has been trying to deflect Canadian people’s attention from Pakistan’s support to Khalistani extremists, and divert people away from Chinese interference in past two Canadian elections he won. But, there is still more to the story. During his 2018 February visit to India, a controversy had erupted over participation of Jaspal Atwal, a convicted Khalistani, at Trudeau’s official events in India. Atwal was convicted in 1986 of attempted assassination of Malkiat Singh Sidhu, the then Punjab minister, in Vancouver. Atwal was sentenced to 20 years. Following the controversy, though the invite to Atwal was rescinded, questions remained as to how could a convicted Khalistani find his way through Canadian Prime Minister’s security? In this regard, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians looked into the allegations associated with Trudeau’s official visit to India in February 2018. In October 2018, it submitted its special report to Trudeau.

 

The said committee found that following his release from prison (after 20 year sentence), Atwal was charged ‘three times, including for violence-related sections of the Criminal Code, such as uttering threats and assault’. It also pointed out, “A number of Mr. Atwal’s charges have not been tried in court. Nonetheless, Mr. Atwal’s repeated involvement with the criminal justice system over a long period of time should have raised security concerns about his participation at events during the Prime Minister’s official trip to India in February 2018.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which has been in news these days over statement regarding ‘agents of the Government of India’, had confirmed Atwal’s criminal record. It is surprising that despite the RCMP confirming Atwal’s criminal record, ‘a number of charges’ on him were not tried in court! But, the same RCMP was forced to issue a statement maligning the image of India, when Trudeau is Prime Minister of Canada.

 

There is an interesting piece of record about the RCMP. B Raman, who had once headed Counter-Terrorism of India’s external intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing, mentions in his famous book ‘The Kaoboys of R&AW’ that the RCMP had disregarded Indian intelligence assessment regarding likelihood of threats to Air India planes from Khalistani terrorists operating from Canada. Ultimately, Khalistani terrorists blew up the Air India plane ‘Kanishka’ mid-air in 1985. “The shocking inaction of the RCMP on the Indian warning cost the lives of 329 innocent civilians. This incident illustrated the kind of non-cooperative attitude from some Western intelligence agencies that India faced while dealing with Khalistani terrorism,” Raman mentions in his book. The situation does not appear to have changed much on this front. Despite Canadian leadership’s reluctance to act against Khalistani extremists operating against India from Canada and despite availability of videos of threats of violence issued by Khalistani terrorists, the US and the UK appear to be supporting Canada. Why? Certainly, there is much more than petty domestic vote-bank politics of Justin Trudeau, whose Prime Minister father Pierre Trudeau also had supported Khalistanis. But, will the Western world wake up the realities of Chinese interference in Canadian elections, Pakistanis links to Khalistani terrorists, and flippancy of Trudeau’s baseless tirade against India? Or, is it deliberately ignoring things, and, in the process, encouraging terrorists to operate with impunity?