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Defence minister declines to immediately deny India might have sabotaged Canada's plane
National Post [Canada] ^ | Sept. 22, 2023 | Tristin Hopper

Posted on 09/22/2023 4:02:53 PM PDT by canuck_conservative

When Defence Minister Bill Blair was later asked by reporters if the breakdown was a result of “sabotage,” he gave a non-committal answer.

“I’m not going to comment on that,” said Blair. “There are, there are obviously ongoing concerns.”

This then prompted a quick clarification by Blair’s press secretary, Daniel Minden, who released a statement saying that Canada has “no reason” to believe it was sabotage, and the aircraft was most likely plagued by a “technical issue.”

The exchange was posted to social media by Steven Chase, an investigative reporter with the Globe and Mail.

Chase is a minor character in the ongoing India-Canada spat in that the Trudeau government has said they only went public with the assassination allegations on Monday in order to get ahead of a media report claiming as much.

Chase and the Globe’s Ottawa bureau chief, Robert Fife, were reportedly on the verge of publishing allegations that Canadian security agencies had signals intelligence showing a link between Indian diplomats and the June murder of Sikh nationalist Hardeep Singh Nijjar...

As Canada waited for rescue, India reportedly offered them the use of Air India One, their country’s equivalent of CanForceOne, but the gesture was rejected.

As Indo-Canadian relations descended to record lows this week, Indian politicians have similarly been making no shortage of wild accusations against Canada. On Thursday, for instance, Indian MP Ravneet Singh Bittu claimed that Trudeau’s Liberal Party is funded in part by the “drug trade.” ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; feud; india; trudeau
Trudeau and his band of idiots keep stirring the pot, they just can't let this go
1 posted on 09/22/2023 4:02:53 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Kastro’s Kid is a chip-off-the-block facist.


2 posted on 09/22/2023 4:06:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Trudeau and his band of idiots keep stirring the pot

That's what he's been doing in Ukraine x 2 years.

3 posted on 09/22/2023 4:07:59 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: canuck_conservative

You can always count on the Left to come to the defense of terrorists.


4 posted on 09/22/2023 4:09:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: canuck_conservative

Idiots…are they saying the Canadian presidential plane is handed over to B local mechanics and not constantly guarded while overseas?

Complete incompetence. No local should be allowed near that plane.


5 posted on 09/22/2023 4:12:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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The guy clearly was a terror mastermind but to the multi colored socks wearing f@99ot he was a victim of Modi’s ‘hindu nationalist’ govt.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/indian-agencies-tracked-nijjar-as-he-met-ktf-chief-in-pak-alerted-canada-8952203/


6 posted on 09/22/2023 4:14:27 PM PDT by libh8er
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Canadian Military plane and Trudeau and his Father love to destroy the Canadian Military


7 posted on 09/22/2023 4:14:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: libh8er

he claimed he was just a plumber, but India says he helped commit a bombing in Punjab and trained terrorists

Trudeau isn’t giving out any further details, which is somewhat suspicious in itself

no one arrested or even identified yet ...


8 posted on 09/22/2023 4:19:36 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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Troodo doesn’t understand what a pipsqueak country he represents. Waaaay too big for his britches.


9 posted on 09/22/2023 4:31:13 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: JonPreston

Canada is a very RACIST country, as their treatment of Seeks shows.


10 posted on 09/22/2023 4:32:30 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: Paladin2

Regardless of who the father was, Trudeau 2.0 intelligence comes from Mom.

I took an English course with a professor who had taught Margaret Trudeau.

As he put it: Pierre didn’t marry her for her brains.


11 posted on 09/22/2023 4:33:27 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Thanks for the data.......


12 posted on 09/22/2023 4:53:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: canuck_conservative

Really rings like a fourth turning..

Ukraine and Poland

India and Canada

Russia and us

Ww3 getting closer.
Survival looks less likely every day.


13 posted on 09/22/2023 4:58:25 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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We don’t have a presidential plane, cuz we don’t have a president. Of course, neither do y’all.

Anyway, accusations that the Liberal Party of Canada are funded by drug money strike me as mild accusations, not wild accusations. In general, Canada is probably a leading center for money laundering, BC casinos have been investigated for that in recent years. There is a huge gang presence in all larger Canadian cities and no real appearance of concern about it from any level of government. Canadians are generally speaking unarmed outside of hunting season usage, and there are very few gun crimes except for those involving gang on gang violence. In that narrow segment the level of violence is considerable, not quite up to mexican levels, but otherwise there is probably little threat of guns being used for other forms of crime.

Personally I would imagine India did send in a team to end the agitation of the Khalistan advocate, as India’s stated policy is to disrupt any movement towards Sikh independence; whether true or false, the Indian government must have had strong belief that their target was effectively organizing support and possibly engaged in terrorist activity although it’s easy enough to say support itself is terrorist activity. As for Trudeau’s contention that India is interfering in “Canadian values,” I don’t know anybody who would fully agree that support for independence of Khalistan is a “Canadian value,” it’s probably not on anyone’s radar at all unless they are of the Sikh religion, and as to whether or not it’s lawful conduct, that would depend on exactly what activities were going on.

I would not expect any foreign government to turn a blind eye to support of domestic turmoil of any kind, and it was probably a lapse of due diligence by our intel services that led to the escalation of this situation to the point that India felt a need to take this on-paper illegal activity violating sovereignty. Allowing the Sikh leader to provoke the response is in a way also a violation of India’s sovereignty. Even if it’s a cause people could widely support such as South Sudan’s freedom from Sudan, nobody should expect a lack of response if movements were being organized from our country. I suppose India is bound to deny involvement, but it’s rather unlikely that anyone else felt any need to assassinate the person in question, unless it would be a Canadian of non-Sikh Indian background who felt strongly about it, and in which case, acting entirely alone or with some support from New Delhi?


14 posted on 09/22/2023 5:25:29 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It's tough non-work but somebody (Congress) has not to do it. )
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America was tolerating NORAID operating on US soil raising money for the provos for years until 9-11 suddenly reminded Americans that terrorism isnt cool. And that was a group waging war on a supposed ally. Perhaps Britain should have send the Increment to cobertly slot NORAID leaders and provos that the US refused to deport and ignored all that gay rule of law shit?


15 posted on 09/22/2023 6:20:58 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Peter ODonnell
RAW does not have "wet teams". In Pakistan at least, it has been accused of using local gangs, which is probably a quarter the population, to ensure LeT and JeM terrorists are continually looking over their shoulder.

If it really wanted to eliminate terrorists in Canada, it would use local gangs.

Imho, the killing of this terrorist is an internecine fight between factions of Khalistanis. There was another Khalistani terrorist liquidated last week in Canada. Also a gang killing. The role of Indian officials would be limited to encourage the factions to turn on each other.

16 posted on 09/24/2023 10:24:37 PM PDT by IndianChief
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