Canada's Conservatives too stand with Justin Trudeau on Hardeep Singh Nijjar issue
Canada's Conservative Party, the main opposition party led by Pierre Poilievre, to avoid defending Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Khalistani terrorist murdered in June, but now the party has openly supported him.
Though Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now even the opposition Conservative Party believe that Nijjar was a peaceful activist, he was wanted in India in several cases of terror. Trudeau kicked up a storm by claiming there are «credible allegations» of India's «potential link» to Nijjar's murder at a gurdwara in Canada.
Tim Uppal, a Conservative MP and the Deputy Leader for Canada's Official Opposition, has defended Nijjar in a statement he made in Canadian Parliament yesterday. “Let me begin by offering my sincere condolences to Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s family. I also did so in person with his son soon after his assassination – an assassination of a Canadian on Canadian soil in the parking lot of a gurdwara," Uppal said in a departure from the statement made by Poilievre after Trudeau's statement on India link.
While Poilievre's statement too condoled Nijjar's death, it offered a boilerplate condemnation of the event and asked for the truth to be brought out. Later he said, «The prime minister needs to come clean with all the facts. We need to know all the evidence possible so that Canadians can make judgments on that...The prime minister hasn’t provided any facts.
