| > India is accused of killing one person. By the entire international community. Including Americans (though the US officially is trying to stay out of it): https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/ca... > Canada is accused of supporting terrorism by its citizens on Indian soil with causalities in the hundreds. Let's not neglect that part of this row. By India and only India. You can keep saying that the Khalistan movement is a terrorist movement but that seems to be only one facet of the equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement > False equivalence. I wasn't drawing an equivalence. You were trying to trap me with Whataboutism, and I was saying I agree with your criticisms. It's not a gotcha. > The Khalistanis in your country are your citizens fighting for a secession in another country. Foreign terrorists at best. The so-called Khalistani movement is not as popular in India as it is in Canada. I can't find a clear confirmation for this but my understanding is Nijjar had to give up his Indian citizenship when he got Canadian. So that he's "foreign" to India is a diplomatic technicality. > It's basically an overseas separatist movement supported by Canada. Let's see how Canada reacts if another country - say China- wants to annex its territories. Even if Canada, as a matter of international policy, was "supporting" this movement (which it isn't), how would this be a valid equivalence? Canada is not trying to annex any territories for itself... Allowing human beings to express an opinion is not a tacit endorsement of them. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Canada You could've just said Afghanistan and laid the responsibility of the re-conquering of that nation by the Taliban under Canada's responsibility rather than gish-galloping with a list of every single conflict since 1002 AD. But keep in mind your point was that Canada has no credibility as a free and democratic institution because of it. I don't know what is the actual example but Afghanistan was controlled by the terrorist Taliban before the invasion, and it still is. |