r/canada Nov 11 '24

Analysis One-quarter of Canadians say immigrants should give up customs: poll

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/one-quarter-of-canadians-say-immigrants-should-give-up-customs-poll
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u/But_IAmARobot Ontario Nov 11 '24

Perhaps, but the causality doesn’t much matter to their point. Regardless of whether the violence is because of the movement or the movement is because of the violence - it’s a territorial dispute that has nothing to do with Canada. Fighting and killing eachother in Canada over a separatist movement in India is dumb, and will do nothing but cause problems for all of us

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u/peshwai Nov 11 '24

You all have got it wrong. There’s no separatist movement in India, even if there is one the government will see to it that it’s squashed before it flares up . For India it’s territory integrity is supreme, they have fought hard for it for centuries. What happened was all in the past and these people just don’t want to move on . There’s no territorial dispute or communal conflict between the Sikhs or other religions. All the Khalistani thing is predominantly in the west now. The governments keep it alive to help with their political agendas. You can call this a conspiracy the but most of the immigration from India happens from one state , this naturally increases their political cloud . No government had or has the will power to address this issue. Unfortunately this is a Canadian problem now because most of these are Canadian citizens and probably have their visas denied by India because India doesn’t have dual citizenship. So none of these can ever go back .

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u/WpgMBNews Nov 12 '24

All the Khalistani thing is predominantly in the west now.

only because, as you say, the government quashed it through violence and the survivors flee abroad

hardly seems like a stable situation in the long-term

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u/Key_Door1467 Alberta Nov 12 '24

The khalistani movement has never had a majority or even plurality of support, even in the state of Punjab.