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Harjit Sajjan’s disastrous tenure as defence minister haunts us still
He’s a symptom of Trudeau Liberals’s penchant for quick wins
Ottawa is still reeling from Thursday’s bombshell allegation that then Liberal defence minister Harjit Sajjan personally directed Canadian special forces to rescue more than 200 Afghan Sikhs during the fall of Kabul in August 2021. It was a directive, according to military sources quoted in the Globe and Mail, that diverted critical resources away from the evacuation of Canadian citizens, translators and other Afghans who’d aided Canada’s two-decade-long war effort in the country.
Sajjan’s family ties to the controversial World Sikh Organization (WSO) were well known before he entered politics — so much so that his nomination as the Liberal candidate for Vancouver South in late 2014 prompted a number of moderate Sikhs in the riding to tear up their party memberships in protest.
One such objector warned at the time, “The Liberal Party, especially Justin (Trudeau), is in bed with extremist and fundamental groups.” This warning, and others like it, would regrettably go unheeded with an obsequious media seemingly more concerned with the young upstart’s luscious locks and sock game.
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