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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

India’s Growing Anger at Trudeau’s Canada

Indian anger against Canada grows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/20/india-canada-killing-public-reaction/
“When Canadian truckers were protesting outside Ottawa, they froze their bank accounts, arrested their families and took them to jail,” said Deepak Shenoy, chief executive of Capitalmind, an investment firm. “These truckers are treated like terrorists. But there are actual terrorists who get political party support and walk clean in Canada. I got to call it out.”
Canada saw its Sikh diaspora grow after the 1980s, when a Sikh militancy calling for a state of Khalistan took India’s Punjab state by storm. Indians recall the bombing of a 1985 Air India flight that killed many Canadians of Indian origin. The Indian government sought the extradition of the accused mastermind, a Sikh man, and many Indians blame Canada for drawing out the investigation.
More recently, with pro-Khalistan protests in Canada, attacks on Indian diplomatic missions in San Francisco and London, and increasing threats against Indian diplomats in those Western countries, Indian authorities are beyond frustrated with their counterparts, who they believe are abusing freedom of speech”.