Narendra Modi met Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the recent G20 Summit in Delhi and conveyed India's “strong concerns” about the continuing anti-India activities of Khalistanis in Canada, Trudeau chose to defend Khalistanis.
Modi told Trudeau that Khalistanis are promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats, damaging diplomatic premises, and threatening the Indian community in Canada and their places of worship while being in nexus with drug and human-trafficking syndicates. Refusing to acknowledge the problem, Trudeau said his country will always defend the freedom of peaceful protest.
He chose to call protests that enact assassination of former Indian PM Indira Gandhi, display AK-47s and glorify violence and terorrism as peaceful. He also said that the whole Sikh community can't be blamed for the actions of a few, but also refusing to commit to take action against those few.
When Justin Trudeau defends Khalistanis, he is just emulating his father, who was Canada's PM twice, from 1968 to 1979 and then from 1980 to 1984.
How Trudeau's father protected the Kanishka bombing mastermind
In 1982, when India asked Canada for extradition of a Khalistani terrorist wanted in India for killing of police officers, Canada, under Pierre Trudeau,Justin Trudeau's father, made a ludicrous excuse and refused.
Terry Milewski, a reputed Canadian journalist who had worked as a senior correspondent with CBC News and has reported extensively on Khalistani movement for decades, narrates the incidents in one of his books thus:
«Canada can't be compared to Pakistan as a springboard for Khalistani militants in the past forty years, but it has offered them the great advantage of a congenial legal and