| TIL about the Parmar extradition, that definitely seems egregious from rudimentary looking around. Though I can't find any examples of "deferential" point. It seems more likely Trudeau just didn't want to and then used a loophole to deny that commonwealth extradition protocol should apply. The CSIS thing is complex. Like I said, it's universal within Canada that it was a fuckup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 > The Governor General-in-Council in 2006 appointed the former Supreme Court Justice John C. Major to conduct a commission of inquiry. His report, which was completed and released on 17 June 2010, concluded that a "cascading series of errors" by the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had allowed the terrorist attack to take place. Note: nuanced phrasing here - "had allowed the terrorist attack to take place" means that their negligence and incompetence led to it not being stopped. Not that they knew it was going to happen and allowed it. But I definitely can see the concern of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182#Destroyed... > "The CSIS investigation was so badly bungled that there was a near mutiny by CSIS officers involved in the probe," said the agent who destroyed the tapes once he had been granted anonymity in January 2000 by Globe and Mail journalists.[143] One agent "said he felt compelled to destroy the tapes (that were in his possession) because he was morally obliged to do everything in his power to protect the safety of his sources. '[I] decided it was a moral issue... If their identity had become known in the Sikh community, they would have been killed. There is no doubt in my mind about that.'" I ultimately don't know what I would do in this situation. These moral choices are not black-and-white. Do you seek to improve the likelyhood of convicting someone of murder by X%, if it increases the likelyhood of more deaths by Y%? I genuinely don't know. If you read on, the CSIS connection is also tenuous. Again, the CSIS fucked up royally. Just like the CIA, FBI, and all the american intelligence agencies fucked up royally when they failed to prevent 9/11. These things do happen, but I do not believe for a second that it was a conspiracy. Would the investigation have gone differently if the victims were white? Honestly, probably, yes. But to be clear, that is a problem of institutional racism within western democracies - not a geopolitical stance Canada has against India, Punjab, or Khalistan. The distinction does matter. Because you're using Canadian incompetence in getting convictions in the Air India bombing to suggest that they have a vested desire to somehow protect, or enable Sikh terrorists. But if you're saying that they fucked up the Air India trial is because of racism, then why would they want to protect Nijjar from India? Just throw him over the fence and make him India's problem. |
https://espionage.substack.com/p/canadian-intelligences-dirt...