‘Hardeep Nijjar was a foreign terrorist’: Canada's Opposition party leader question

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The leader of Canada's opposition party questions Justin Trudeau about Hardeep Nijjar's status as a foreign terrorist.

Hardeep Nijjar should have been deported, his citizenship should be revoked posthumously, Bernier said, while raising pointed questions for Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, spoke out strongly The People's Party of Canada leader, Maxime Bernier, stated on Thursday that the Liberal government's and the RCMP's claims that Indian diplomats were involved in illegal operations in Canada are extremely serious and, if confirmed, require swift action.
Maxime Bernier, however, emphasized that although the allegations are grave, the Canadian government has yet to provide any credible proof. He further charged that Justin Trudeau is exploiting this situation to deflect attention from other issues.

"If accurate, the RCMP and Liberal government's claims that Indian diplomats engaged in illegal activity on our soil are grave and need to be addressed. However, we haven't received any evidence as of yet. Furthermore, it is obvious that Trudeau is leveraging this crisis to deflect attention from other issues. In a post on X (previously Twitter), Maxime Bernier stated

Additionally, Bernier denied that the Khalistani terrorist killed last year, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was Canadian.

However, one misconception needs to be debunked: that the main Nijjar should have been deported, according to Bernier, who asserted that he wasn't a Canadian and suggested posthumously renouncing his citizenship to fix this administrative blunder.

Nijjar was not a citizen of Canada. Perhaps in order to correct this administrative error, we could deprive him of his citizenship after his death. Like the hundreds of thousands of phony asylum seekers currently in Canada, he ought to have been deported following his initial false claim, he continued.

Bernier urged the need to acknowledge this error and work with the Indian government rather than jeopardizing ties with a significant ally, pointing out that this predicament is a result of Canada's long history of welcoming outsiders and their disputes.
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"Canada has purposefully invited these foreigners and their tribal conflicts into Canada for decades, which is why all of this is happening." our nation. Instead of endangering our ties with a growing global power and a significant ally over this matter, we should acknowledge this grave error and collaborate with the Indian government to find answers," the leader of the People's Party of Canada continued.

The US, UK, and Australia, Canada's Five Eyes allies, have urged New Delhi to assist Ottawa in its probe into a suspected link between the Indian government and the murder of pro-Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

A new low was reached this week when New Delhi called Ottawa's decision to question six Indian diplomats, including High Commissioner Sanjay Verma, in connection with the killing "preposterous." India-Canada ties have been in a freefall since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed in September of last year that there was a connection between Indian government agents and the murder of Nijjar.

The Trudeau administration's "baseless allegations" against Indian officials, according to the Indian government, were the only cause of the current situation, and Canada has not yet complied with India's requests.to arrest multiple individuals suspected of terrorism and major crimes and extradite 26 others.

Gurpatwant  Singh Pannun, a designated terrorist in India and the general counsel for the secessionist organization Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), has acknowledged that he has been in contact with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office in recent years.

According to Pannun, who spoke to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the SFJ had contacted Trudeau's office about suspected Indian espionage networks in Canada.

Regarding the murder of Hardeep Nijjar, Justin Trudeau said, "It could have made the G20 Summit very uncomfortable" and listed five points.

According to Justin Trudeau, Canadian authorities have initially looked to India for collaboration "in a responsible way" that avoids "blow up" relations between Ottawa and New Delhi.
On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that he only made the murder accusation against India's government public after a protracted attempt to resolve the issue diplomatically was turned down by Indian authorities.



Given that India was set to host a Group of 20 leaders summit at the time, Justin Trudeau stated in his testimony before the public inquiry into foreign meddling in federal electoral processes and democratic institutions that Canadian officials had initially sought cooperation with the Indian government "in a responsible way" that doesn't "blow up the relationship between Canada and India."

In reference to the August 2023 talks, Justin Trudeau stated, "We had the opportunity of making it a very uncomfortable summit for India if we went public with these allegations ahead of time."



"We decided not to. We decided to keep trying to persuade India to work with us in the background," the prime minister of Canada stated.



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