Rising intelligence leaks give credibility to the allegation that India is behind the killing of a Canadian citizen
Certainly now, even the Trudeau Liberals will begin to take nationwide safety significantly. If certainly the Indian authorities was behind the killing of a Canadian citizen, it proves but once more that the concept that Canada is far too enlightened to concern itself with one thing as unsophisticated as safety is nothing however a fantasy.
The Liberals have spent their time in workplace dismissing worries over nationwide defence and international interference, ignoring intelligence recommendation and branding anybody who questions Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategy as traitorous and un-Canadian. Presuming India is accountable, if the killing of Sikh separatist (and alleged terrorist) Hardeep Singh Nijjar inside Canadian borders is sufficient to pressure Trudeau to take the safety of the nation he governs significantly, it’s a change of mindset that’s to be welcomed.
Sadly, the plain partisan curiosity the Liberals have in aggressively opposing India — that Sikh Canadians are an necessary voting bloc — and Trudeau’s personal historical past of subordinating international coverage to home partisan considerations, has solely bred skepticism.
However the truth the federal government can’t be trusted on points similar to this doesn’t imply the allegations are unfaithful. A rising variety of safety leaks suggests there could possibly be extra to the claims towards India than merely the prime minister’s personal bare self-interest. The draw back is that the main points are nonetheless far too skinny to persuade anybody who wasn’t already satisfied.
The suggestion, together with extremely from not less than one journalism professor, that reporters mustn’t ask for proof as a result of intelligence shouldn’t be alleged to be shared is ridiculous past perception. Someplace alongside the best way, giant segments of the political and media class simply determined to outline left-wing activism as journalism, and berate reporters who query a Liberal prime minister.
Asking for proof shouldn’t be pushing a conspiracy concept and the phrases “nationwide safety” usually are not some type of sorcerer’s incantation that protects towards scrutiny. Accepting a first-rate minister’s unsupported phrase as the reality shouldn’t be accountable journalism, regardless of what number of professors, or left-wing activist-reporters suppose it so.
Clearly, a bit of extra transparency on the a part of the federal government is so as.
In any case, all of it comes again to how uninterested the federal government is in nationwide safety.
A component that stands out when evaluating the Chinese language election interference allegations that consumed the federal government earlier this 12 months, and the suspected Indian assassination of a Canadian citizen, is that in each cases, the Canadian authorities had a historical past of not taking warnings from the Canadian Safety Intelligence Service significantly sufficient.
The federal government was warned for years about Chinese language election interference forward of the 2019 and 2021 elections, warnings that have been apparently ignored.
The prime minister could make Canadians safer from international threats just by opening his eyes.
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