By sharing inconvenient information, I am more likely to trust the Trudeau Government, eventhough I don't agree with them on most things anymore.
I wish the 320 Air India passenger victims got the same consideration from Canada even though the Canadian citizens were likely ethnically South Asian than Canadian. The alleged perpetuators were let go due to lack of evidence two decades later.
> Wiretaps by Canada’s intelligence agency had been erased before they could be used as evidence
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/world/canada/canada-india...
> Canada's security agency destroyed wiretapping evidence on suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing as part of a "default" policy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/erasing-wiretap-evidence-was-...
> Wiretaps by Canada’s intelligence agency had been erased before they could be used as evidence
Is there any evidence of a coverup? The trial was ~20 years after the wiretaps were collected which leaves plenty of time for incompetence/negligence to do the job.
From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-india-bo...
> June 2, 2003:
> Opposition MPs call for an inquiry into accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) blocked the RCMP investigation into the bombing.
> According to RCMP documents, CSIS ordered the destruction of hours of wiretaps to conceal the fact that one of its agents, Surjan Singh Gill, had penetrated a circle of Sikh extremists planning the attack. He was ordered to pull out three days before Air India Flight 182 blew up.
> You keep bringing this up, but I don't see how it's relevant considering Hardeep Singh Nijjar was 8 years old at the time of the bombing
The NYTimes considers it relevant enough to mention it in the context https://archive.ph/9re2c
The accused in the bombing was heavily associated with Nijjar later on to the point of them having a dispute and a lawsuit about a commercial printing press used for the separatist movement.
I don't wish India and Canada (and the West) to be unfriendly for one bit, as the result of this misalignment could be a more severe return to bloody Cold War era and its related proxy wars. Many more victims will derive from democracies not being on good terms and showing a strong unity.
The only winner in this spat is whoever benefits from India and the West being driven apart.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/conspiracy-to-kill-...
If a Country’s sitting prime minister and innocent citizens (mid-flight ref Kanishka bombing) are murdered by terrorists, would you find fault if that country goes to the end of the earth to eliminate them?
US was one such country. Canada sent its soldiers into Afghanistan and Iraq in the past while innocent civilians were being killed in the open.
If India did have a hand in Nijjar’s killing, it perhaps did it to either send a message to Khalistani’s that it’s not to be messed with. Canada is tolerant of intolerance. Again, it can keep its snakes in its backyard.