‘Trudeau, sociologically and politically, is an idiot’: Ujjal Dosanjh on why PM is to blame for Sikh extremism in Canada
‘You can actually quote me… he’s an imbecile in terms of understanding how you build nations,’ says the former federal Liberal cabinet minister
“A silent majority of the Sikhs do not want to have anything to do with Khalistan. They just don’t speak out because they’re afraid of violence and violent repercussions,” reports Ujjal Dosanjh, as a Sikh living in Vancouver, B.C.
The call for a separate Sikh homeland in Punjab, India — to be called Khalistan — has been brewing since the 1930s, when British rule in India was nearing its end. Although the movement now has marginal support in India, it has taken wings in Canada and escalated into the present derailing of relations between two friendly Commonwealth democracies, India and Canada.
Unlike many of his Sikh peers in Canada, Ujjal — a former NDP premier of British Columbia and a former federal cabinet minister under Liberal prime minister Paul Martin — isn’t afraid to speak out. He’s been extremely vocal, especially since 1985; that’s when the bombing of Air India Flight 182 by Khalistani extremists, killing 329 people, brought the separatist movement to Canada.
Ujjal, now 78, has faced death threats from extremists but remains unwavering in his determination to convince fellow Canadians that the overwhelming majority of the nearly 800,000 Sikhs in Canada do not support the Khalistani movement. “I’d say less than five per cent, less than five per cent,” he emphasizes.
To be clear, Ujjal is not denying the awfulness of recent events on North American soil. The brazen murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist designated a terrorist by India, in the parking lot of a Sikh gurdwara in Surrey, B.C. And the foiled murder plot in the United States against another Sikh separatist, dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
While accountability for this violence is an imperative, the purpose of my conversation with Uijal is not to sift through the evidence and intelligence. What I want to understand is how we got to this place where Canada’s Sikh population, the largest Sikh diaspora in the world, has in effect been co-opted by the Khalistanis to the point where this obscure separatist movement has become a Canadian problem.
Without hesitation, Ujjal points to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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I’ve always respected Ujjal. He’s NDP but I can forgive him for that because he has always been very protective of our country (quite unlike Jagmeet Singh). In today’s story he is once again “correct as hell” as he points out that most Sikhs living in Canada want nothing to do with this Khalistani movement now ongoing in our fair country thanks to our resident moronic Prime Minister, the ‘Dishonorable’ Justin the freak!
I applaud him for coming out and telling it like it is.
Well said, Ujjjal! I salute you!