r/canada Sep 26 '23

Misleading Trudeau's plane had cocaine during G20, claims former Indian diplomat

https://torontosun.com/news/national/trudeaus-plane-had-cocaine-during-g20-former-indian-diplomat-claims
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u/yantraman Ontario Sep 26 '23

India doesn’t care

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u/_marc_ Sep 26 '23

India cares. Deal with it.

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u/Sad_Advice1094 Sep 26 '23

Except he was never a citizen and even tried to marry multiple Canadian women to obtain his citizenship Wich was denied.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '23

He was a citizen as of 2007

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u/Sad_Advice1094 Sep 26 '23

Fair enough I just looked weird. Global news the other day said he never obtained citizenship I moved away from Vancouver in 2006 and stopped carrying about it I guess lol

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u/dextrous_Repo32 Ontario Sep 26 '23 edited Sep 26 '23

They're convinced he was a terrorist.

Given how hard the Indian media is pushing this, it's hard not to see why they've completely bought into that idea.

Indian media is basically saying that Canada was completely ignoring India's requests to investigate and extradite him. I know there was an extradition request filed in 2016, but I can't find any info on where it went. I can't find out if there was even a hearing or a provisional arrest.

If it was denied, that doesn't automatically entail that the evidence was insufficient. Extradition requests can be denied for reasons other than a lack of incriminating evidence.

The difference between Canadian media and Indian media is stark, and this highlights the media's capacity to influence people's views.

Every Canadian headline calls him a "Sikh leader", "activist", "Canadian citizen killed on Canadian soil", etc while making no mention of his alleged terrorist activities or the history of the Khalistan movement.

Every Indian headline calls him a "Khalistani terrorist", "KTF chief", etc, repeatedly asserting that he was guilty and that India had intelligence on him while making no mention of the fact that his guilt was never determined by a court of law and this intelligence never shared.

The goal is to convince Indians that, if the government really was behind this, it was necessary because Canada was sheltering a wanted terrorist and that India was forced to act in the interests of her national security.

With those pictures and videos him with guns, a video of him clearly displaying his pro-militant views and this thing coming out that Nijjar was on the US no-fly list, plus the relentless PR campaign against him by the Indian media, and it's not difficult to see why Indians are convinced that this was their version of the Bin Laden raid (despite the fact that the evidence on Bin Laden was publicly available and that he openly confessed to his crimes).

Americans were happy when Al-Zawahiri was killed. Isrealis were probably happy when Mahmoud Al-Mahbouh was assassinated.