Thank you for calling it terrorism! I can't express how infuriating it's been watching mainstream Canadian media call all these guys as religious leaders

*Fun Fact:* Punjab province/state is not exclusive to India, Pakistan too has a larger Punjab province with sizeable Sikh population, however Khalistanis only want land carved out of India, and not Pakistan, because Khalistan is a project by Pakistan under its _"Bleed India by 1000 cuts"_ doctrine. Edit: JJ is equating Sikhs as Khalistanis whereas in reality well over 90% of Sikhs don't want Khalistan, only those with allegiance to Pakistan want it.

One thing Trudeau did and every indian should thank him : uniting all indian political parties together A rare W for indian politics

Did not expect such unbiased commentary from a Canadian on this topic. More power to you sir.

You forgot to mention that Indian government had asked for Parmar’s extradition before the Air India bombing. It’s should have been easy as both nations are part of the commonwealth. However Justin Trudeau’s dad Pierre denied the request because Indian government didn’t consider the Queen (of England) a head of state.

I'm neither Indian nor Canadian, but I am fascinated by how immigrant groups are often much more nationalistic and radical than the people back home. In particular, I'm from Croatia and my impression is that immigrant Croatians in Germany and Australia often tend to care much, much more about historical issues and our grudges with our neighbors than most people that I know in Croatia.

As a non-India and non-Canadian, thank you for letting me know the world is a worse place than I thought it is. Honestly, great video, great explanation.

Can we discuss how DISAPPOINTING the mainstream has been? Thank you for your work. THIS is why people turned to KZfaq. Can’t believe some elite hypocrites would call terrorists freedom fighters

This video is proof that if you want to really understand an issue, KZfaq is often miles ahead of news coverage. Well done!

As a Indo-Australian from a Sikh background, it’s super interesting to see the difference in discourse and culture with regards to Khalistan. My entire life I haven’t really seen anyone here share that rhetoric for support for the movement - or most people just don’t care at all or are indifferent. Seeing this play out in Canada, and in its politics - is super interesting.

as an american, i had no damn clue this was even happening (there is pretty much zero coverage on international topics outside of what the usa itself has a vested interest in), so thank you for covering it & bringing non-canadian / indian eyes to the issue

Actually, Sikhs are highly regarded in India compared to others due to their generally hardworking and empathetic nature. Very recently did I learn about Khalistani terrorism in India (clue: it doesn't exist in India at all). Unfortunately, due to racism sponsored apathy, Canada ended up accumulating extremists. Do not know whether it is good for Canadian society or not (clue: it isn't good). As far as India is concerned, we are more than happy to share space with our Sikh brethren in our home country.

The real problem is the lack of any arrests following such an attack, the worst airline related terrorism incident until 9/11. Witnesses were murdered along the way to a trial and eventually one person was convicted 20 years later and he served less than 5 years in prison. Imagine if the 9/11 terrorists survived and nobody cared to uncover who was behind it and those terrorists lived happily ever after in New York City.

5:16 "A unique flavour of political violence had come to Canada ... that the majority of Canadians were indifferent to." Wonderfully put. 👏

Sikh in India are revered. As a woman in India, having a Sikh brother in a room, has an automatic response of being safe. They are synonymous with brave, honour bound and honest with deep sense of national pride and service towards humanity. They command respect in our heart for all that they have sacrificed for our country. My family has served in indian military and through them have known many punjabi uncles and brothers who stand guard for protecting our freedom.

Your observation that khalistani are popular in Punjab is not true. Majority of indian sikhs want to be Indians.

JJ didn't want to touch the Indian side but Sikhs in general are respected and highly valued in India for their contribution to Indian society, in particular the sacrifices they made for Indian independence and continue to make even today. India's anger toward Canadian indifference over Sikh extremists is broadly shared in India - not just among chauvinist Modi supporters!

I'm from India and not a Sikh. I'd been following this issue for a while. There haven't been one, who actually put things to perspective; like its been done here. Truly unbiased and exceptional. Like the turban they wear, the Sikh community are a kind of pride to our country. Its really sad to know that the complete community is been shamed because of some handful of miscreants. I just hope that this ends soon. Once again, a beautiful commentary.

As an Indian, everything you said makes sense. Fir the first time, I'm going to research about Khalistan movement from a khalistani POV. Thanks for the video.

India : we didn't do it. Indians: we will fookin do it again

Having friends who are from Canada, friends who are Sikh and some acquaintances who are from India, this was a very interesting experience over the past week or so.

A very balanced presentation. There is one point that is missed in the ending. In India, both parties are united on this issue (a rare occurence). In many ways, this is an issue that concerns the opposition Congress party more than the ruling BJP. It was the Congress party supremo, Indira Gandhi, who was assasinated by the Khalistanis in 1984 - her death celebrated with a float (depiciting her assassination) in Canada a few weeks ago. It was Mrs.Gandhi who was pleading with the senior Trudeau to extradite the soon-to-be Air India bombing planner. It was the Congress in power when the two Air India bombs went off. Yes, two Air India bombs - the second one exploded on the ground in Tokyo resulting in 2 deaths vs 300+. The BJP could have taken the petty politics route and dismissed most of this as insults to his arch-rival congress party. The fact is that the BJP and Congress are in complete sync on this issue - it's not just a Modi/BJP thing.

I did not know about the 1985 airplane terrorist attack. It reminds me of in 2020, when Iran attempted to shoot a missile at an American air force base, but accidentally shot down a civilian jet plane flying from Tehran to Canada, and mostly carrying Iranian-Canadians who were traveling home to Canada after visiting family in Iran. I always thought it was a tragedy how quickly western media glossed over hundreds of Canadians being murdered by the Iranian government, I thought if Iran had shot down a plane full of white Canadians, there would be more of a fuss. I guess that racism is as much of a problem in the 2020s as it was in the 1980s.

Khalistanis are not Sikhs. Suppression of Sikhs happens in Pakistan Punjab not Indian Punjab.

I'm an Indian immigrant to Canada, and this is the best, most well informed analysis I've seen in almost all of Canadian media, mainstream or otherwise. Kudos.

All I'm wondering is how the hell a man does only 5 years in prison for an assassination attempt. Can we at least agree that our justice system is not fit for purpose?

Kudos, you were able to walk a very fine line. This is a video people need to watch if they want to understand recent Indian - Canadian tensions.

Who’s right? India.

I understand why it would look weird to Canadians the way Modi acts, but considering the fact rhe India hold thousands of different cultures, languages, and a large demographic of every religion in earth, his foreign policy being more aggressive makes sense. When you're 2 biggest borders are with China and Pakistan (both extremely hostile nations to India), we take our internal and foreign policy very seriously. It's very difficult for every other western (specifically english speaking) countries to relate as they are probably the most secure nations in the world, being completely surrounded by very friendly neighors, and water with the greatest navies in the world. Its very easy for Westerners to see Indians as paranoid until you understand that if we weren't so paranoid our nation would surely have been destroyed by hostile powers.

I'm Sikh from Punjab INDIA and I see no difference between Khalistani movement and ISIS. My grandfather faught for India's independence and I can never betray him Jai hind 🇮🇳

1:09 what map is it?

No matter, Who is right, trudeau is always wrong😂😂😂

I remember the air india flight bombing off the coast ireland, it was one of the worst terrorist attacks in the republic and it is remembered as probably the biggest terrorist attack in cork in modern history (obviously after the civil war and war of independence), it was tragic. the bodies were recovered and transported to cork airport by helicopter and it was pretty sureal according to people who saw it. today there is a memorial near ahakista village in west cork, it was something that was shocking at the time

Most of us are chill AF. Khalistani agenda is not popular with most Sikhs as it goes against our core and fundamental beliefs. Some of those beliefs are that; we are all one & being a lover before you are a warrior.

In india a normal sikh get more respect than any other community. ❤

Thanks for making these video essays for us. You format and deliver these into easy to understand videos.

I'm from BC, I was born 10+ years after 1985 but I never knew about that attack. No one taked about it in school, it wasn't in our curriculum, and I've never heard anyone talk about it otherwise. My theory as to why is that it's an "older" event and while the plotting occurred on Canadian soil, the actual deaths did not. Given the mass scale of this attack I'm just shocked this is the first I'm hearing of it.

As a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines I would consider it inappropriate to stage large political rallies for political issues related to the USA. Even more, it would be a terrible thing to support violence towards factions in my country from here. If I were to naturalize as a Filipino citizen I would consider myself even FURTHER separated from political issues in the USA. This is just good manners, what's wrong with these people

15:50 can we get back to a place where we don’t praise someone and give them positions of power simply based on there skin Color? Jagmeat Singh is an extremist in every way, not just khalistani ideas but also LGBT stuff and he is part of the WEF. He needs to go asap, I don’t care what Color he is. Time to stop propping people up for identity politics points.

"Extremists who Support Violent Means to Establish XYZ" is kind of the _definition_ of the word "terrorists", no?

“For reasons that are not entirely clear…” - it’s actually a bit clearer. It was mostly veteran Indian soldiers in the British Indian army who were the earliest settlers in BC. And the British Indian army contained a disproportionately high number of Punjabi Sikhs due to a racialised military recruitment policy of the British in India. The Punjabi Sikhs were considered by the British to be a highly “martial race”.

I suspect it's a religious politics problem within some temples across Canada. I worked with one Sikh who told me his temple came knocking on his front door after he stopped attending. They had the gall of guilt tripping him and implying he was a bad Sikh if he didn't show support by giving them a donation. There are political factions sometimes when it comes to who runs the local temple. When a community has bad leadership all the little people suffer. All of Canada has the same problem right now.

and what is your opinion about the map of india which u r showing in the clip.

Can we list all the countries Trudeau has ticked off (regardless of blame)? India, China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, sometimes the U.S., some Europeans, etc.

You are probably only Canadian who covered this issue proper research without being biased there are still bit loopeholes also thanks for separating Sikhs from these fundamentalist Sikh radical known as Khalistanis as a Indian born Sikh we don't support this radical idea of sikh homeland by killing innocent people we want good relationship between Canada and India. But these Khalistanis got a shelter by this Canadian liberal government for domestic politics but its harming India Canada relationship in long run bad way 👍

As someone from India, I really hope this situation is solved diplomatically and privately. I do believe that India and Canada can cooperate and put this issue to rest once and for all. Also to add, nobody in Punjab or other Sikhs in India support this stupid idea of a theocracy. India also had a Sikh PM not too long ago, who pretty much led the liberalisation of the country. 26:52 I think this is very essential for people to hear.

Khalistan supporters don't only want Punjab as a separate country. they also want Pakistani Punjab and other parts of North India such as Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. although, not all supporters want other parts of north India and Pakistani Punjab. they want Indian Punjab as a separate country

Good job JJ. I was a bit disappointed that you hadn't discussed it yet. As an Indian living in Canada and loving both countries tremendously, I have always been surprised at how little Canadians know of Air India bombing and K terrorism. Thanks to Trudeau at least now we are discussing it. Mainstream Canadian media coverage however has been rather one sided and uninformed I must add. Not that I had great hopes feom them.

My Indian Business Partner at the time lost his nephew on the Air India Flight. On the first anniversary of the Air India Disaster the boys father, my partner’s brother, dropped dead of a heart attack while preparing to protest the slow investigation of the Air India Disaster on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Canada has become a TERRORIST HAVEN UNDER JUSTIN CASTRO TRUDEAU!!!!

Very detailed and well researched 👍

I really didn't expected your video to be this unbiased Congratulations 👏

As an Indian, my advice to Canada is just stop visas to Indians too and let's break whatever trade we used to do. There are plenty other countries to do trade with. We Indians live next to Pakistan, China and knows how bad Terrorism looks like. We don't want one more country to send terrorists to our country. You enjoy those in your country. Cherish them, feed them, grow them and enjoy the fruits that they will provide in return.

It is not just Khalistani terrorists who found safe haven in Canada. It is also important to remember that the confessed killer of our Prime Minister of Bangladesh, his wife and kids is living freely in Canada despite many extradition requests. Not just the terrorists from India and Bangadesh but also from Sri Lanka and Nazis have found safe haven in Canada.

there were tensions when indira gandhi shot dead that was in delhi and that was not sikh riots that were sikhs exodus and congress somewhere involved in it indirectly. but I can surely tell that there is not even 0.00000000000001% discrimination with sikhs on religious basis. if you see indian army anytime you will probably see a sikh patrioticism is in their veins. a very few are disturbing things by khalistan propaganda initiated by pakistan. sanatani and sikhs are sons of one mother. every sanatani knows and never forget the sacrifice of two sons of guru govind singh sahib ji who were bricked alive by wazir khan. we love sikh brothers for their kindness human friendly acts, langars in gurudwaras. i am sanatani if i got a chance to donate money and sewa in gurudwaras i wikll definitely do it. sache patshah di jay jo bole sonihal sat shri akal guru nanak babe di jay vande matram jay shri krishna

Punjabi's (Sikhs) are most respected and most wealthy people in India.....we are proud of them❤

This reminds me of relations between the US and the UK over the Irish Troubles. Some American politicians made statements dismissing the seriousness of the IRA, and allowed NorAid to do fundraising in the US.

You're a brave man for tackling this subject JJ! In his book "Waging War from Canada" , the author Mike Pearson explains how the Canadian system harbours terrorists and allows their movements to flourish. Home grown terrorist groups such as the FLQ and Mohawk Warriors received mild sentences for their crimes. The television series "Air Crash Investigation" Season 5, Episode 7; displayed how the race card was played by one of the bombers who effectively used The Multiculturalism Act to prevent the counter staff from questioning his activities. It was Air India's own team that did a proper investigation where the CSIS bungled it. The Canadian example is a display how a government will spend more on tribalism than it's own defense. The Canadian taxpayer will pay for all of this.

The video was reaserched and unbiased esp from a westerner it was pleasantly surprising. Thank you for talking about air india bombing as western media downplayed and buried it for years

I m a sikh Indian woman. We are not oppressed. The khalistani seperatist are sourcing their anger and motivation from the 1984 genocide. It was terrible but a work of a currupt selfish politics. The times have changed and yes the people and the govt is trying to move on and live in harmony. We are a part of our country and love and are loved equally.

There's an incredible ammount of similarities between the Canada-India conflict and the Sweden-Turkey conflict. There's similarly a significant number of Kurds in Sweden, and a tendency by politicians to be sympathetic to their plights leading to the downplaying of Kurdish terrorism in Turkey which (understandably) annoys the Turks. They've repeatedly demanded Kurds be extradited on terrorist charges, and Sweden has consistently refused. In our case, it blew up over the NATO accession veto. It's a complicated case - on the one hand, you can be sympathetic with the fury when Western countries shelter what (they perceive to be) terrorists and take a nonchalant attitude to what is a national security threat to them, on the other the actions/demands of those countries in response are unacceptable.

One relevant fact that you didn’t mention was that Canada is one of (if not the only) western nation that does not ban the glorification of terrorism. There have been celebrations of the Air India bombings and the “martyrs” who arranged it. Canada tolerates that while other countries do not. Seems like changing that law may be a good place to start.

Former US ambassador to the UN, and current presidential Runner Nikki Haley is sikh her actual name is Nimrata Kwar Haley. Feel free to correct the spelling on it I'm not sure if I spelled her name correctly. She converted to Christianity but she still got married in a gurdwara. I think her conversion was just for convenience, because she was politically active in Extremely Christian South Carolina.

I am Indian, I found majority of Sikh community as helpful, well respected, hardworking and forward looking apart from few radicals ( mostly in foreign land ) .Till date India was ignoring these non issues because we have much bigger problems to dealt with but now due to Trudeau foolishness Bravery about "Credible Allegations" , Indian govt will ensure that these radicals and along with their sympathizers like Trudeau are dealt strongly..

A single line from a random journalist in random debate show of a Canadian news channel Cleared me everything - " As long as it directly hurts the interests of Canada - Canada doesn't seem anything as terrorism" 😂

Your explanation is well articulated, and it's reassuring to see someone from outside the Indo-Canadian community grasp the situation and effectively communicate it to Canadians.

One of my dear classmates was on the Air India flight. RIP

Context: Pew Research Poll 2020 found that 95% of Sikhs are 'very proud' of their Indian identity. Sikhs are 2% of the population yet have 10% share in the Indian armed forces.

how does this guy look like a teenager and a 40 year old professor at the same time?

The biggest reason is probably the time that witnessed the surge of indo Canadian immigrants, 1980s to 2000s, this was the time where after the Hindu prime minister's assassination in 1984, hindus of the party started a massive genocides of Sikhs, around 20,000 were killed in 2 days, thousands are still yet to be found, thousands of sikhs were arrested with no warrants, so the Sikhs at the time needed a shelter to feel safer than they did in India, hence the surge in immigration, that's why the majority of the protesters are in Canada, which is known to uphold right to speech.

As Indian I can tell Sikh is highly respectable community throughout India. Every city, county, people will see gurudwara and langer running there is no discrimination in any part of India. We got sikh president and pm within 75 year of independence. If you really want to understand the problem look into it’s economic, there is no political angle. Canadian Sikh are importing young sikh people from punjab and employee them on low wages, and charging them from immigration services. If Canada want to fix it stop immigration from India and only allow folk to do master education from India.

As an Indian currently in Canada, I have to say this was incredibly balanced and well thought out. The insight on how political candidates are selected is much appreciated. I just have a few additional thoughts to add, which might give you and your viewers some insight. 1. As a ''post-nation'' state, Canada's biggest long term threat is going to be to integrate immigrants into its own political culture and preventing them from bringing their grievances from home. Former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh did a brilliant podcast on this topic recently. One of the main reasons for the Indian government's response is that it is Canadian citizens in Canada who are raking up Indian political issues. Since India constitutionally prohibits multiple citizenship, the Khalistanis in Canada are by definition ''foreigners'' and have no right to participate in Indian politics. Thus Khalistanis would be better serve participating in Canadian politics instead of raking up issues of Indian politics from Canada. 2. What the Canadian government and the West doesn't realize is that the definition of a ''democracy'' is a little different in India compared to the West. I would consider India to be an ''electoral'' democracy and nothing else. Governments and public institutions are often authoritarian by design and our constitution limits freedom of speech and expression for secessionism, threats to public order and calls to violence. This is seen as ''undemocratic'' in the West but by large portions of Indian voters as necessary evils to maintain territorial integrity and public order. The only opportunity Indians get to participate in the process of governance is in federal or state elections. In my mind, Indian culture is generally more deferential to hierarchy and authority similar like say China, Japan or Korea, none of which have a long history of democracy, in the case of Japan only after WWII. This does not change the fact that Modi is genuinely popular, that elections are free and fair and that there is a legitimate opposition in India unlike in Russia, China or Iran. Confusing cultural authoritarianism with lack of democracy demonstrates a lack of understanding in the West about the different ''flavours'' of democracy. 3. The Indian population is by and large united on issues of foreign policy and zero tolerance of threats of territorial integrity. Literally every opposition party like the Congress (which ironically presided over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a blot on our history) supports the government's stand. There is broad consensus on issues like non-alignment in the Ukraine war and buying oil and weapons from Russia and being tough on nations that harbour separatists that threaten Indian territorial integrity. India does not have a history of expansionist foreign invasions like most of the West does. Thus any lecturing by the West when we are trying to protect territorial integrity rejected by all people in the political spectrum. 4. Punjab is actually a broader region that includes an entire province of present day Pakistan. Punjab historically has had a roughly 1/3rd split b/w Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus on a roughly West to East direction. Hundreds of thousands of Sikhs left Western (Muslim majority) Punjab after partition and fled to India. One striking feature of the Khalistan movement is the complete absence of their demands for any part of Pakistan in their homeland. Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism was born in Nankana Sahib, in present day Pakistan. He died at Kartarupur Sahib, which is also in Pakistan. The capital of the Sikh Empire was in Lahore, present day Pakistan. In India this obviously demonstrates that the movement is funded and aided by Pakistan.

It's not Canada - India Crisis It is Trudeue - India crisis This has to undertstand by Canadian people

The love and respect i have seen for sikhs in India just makes me think how political parties just can't withstand peace. This offshore radicalism has nurtured there as a result of lack of continuous dialogue and cultural integration. Punjabis are our people, they have always been, there's no doubting there love for there own homeland i.e, India.

The frustration of India with Canada is not just a sudden change in the world view that modi government has, it is decades long and that is due to 26 extradition requests of known terrorists that were rejected, no conviction of known terrorists and separatist that threaten the sovereignty of India in a country that considers itself as a "rule of law country". If you further talk about the opinion of Indians on this matter, everyone and by that i mean everyone is united and standing with the current government because even the congress had the same issues when they were in power and if anyone thinks rahul gandhi(opposition leader) will be a bit better in this situation then no, his grandmother was assassinated by khalistanis. And India is not the only country that is frustrated with canada, the assasin of Bangladesh's father of nation is also in canada and he's living freely. Trudeau is crying about sovereignty and integrity of canada while when it comes to India's integrity he treats the issue by ignoring it. This video should've included the historical context of sikhs and India-Canada ties because only then can this story be understood well enough. India's reaction and action are completely justified because Canada has been apathetic to this issue for far too long and by the way there are more khalistanis than being implied in this video, the threat to normal Indians is real and instead of protecting the diplomats and innocent citizen Canadian government is giving khalistanis free reign to do anything in the name of free speech.

Something that leaves a question in my mind....why is most of the rhetoric of the Khalistani Movement targeted against India, while Pakistan is rarely mentioned. if we took a look at a historical religious census and a modern one, Sikhs have been persecuted much more in Pakistan than in India. Something about that all seems suspicious.

I have made my summary after watching the video and reading the comments. If you find a mistake, suggest the correction. It was too long, so I might have made mistakes. Phase 1 1. India gains independence; some sikh elements want an independent country but fail. 2. Years later, they are still trying to gain a separate state in India. Motivated by this, a radical faction emerges that wants to punish both Sikhs and non-Sikhs whom they believed as traitors to the Khalistan cause. 3. The Prime Minister of India then, compelled by multiple separatist movements across the countries, decided to use Iron fists to quell the rebellion. 4. Khalistani and Indian forces engage in prolonged conflict, in which innocent Sikhs also suffer. The conflict ends with the death of the rebellion leader in a raid on a Sikh holy place. 5. The khalistani movement turned on the Sikhs in Punjab and thus gained indifference and apathy from people. The people of Punjab slowly integrated into Indian identity and became the nation’s pride. Phase 2 1. The political losers, khalistani sympathisers and innocent victims with means migrate to Canada. 2. Due to Canadian authorities’ disdain in dealing with a small number of immigrants and different cultures. They do not do a proper job of vetting the people (which included many violent elements running from India) 3. Some terrorists attacked and killed hundreds of innocents, but the events did not gain significant attention from Canadian authorities. 4. Due to a lack of evidence, Canada fails to punish the terrorists. 5. Canada also refused extradition requests because India was considered closer to the USSR then. Phase 3 1. Failure to punish the terrorists gave a huge impetus to Khalistani extremists’ prestige. This also allowed them to fool the masses into shifting the blame to the Indian government. 2. This slowly deteriorated the ties on the diplomatic level as more criminals from India managed to get residence in Canada, and there was increasing anti-indie sentiment in Canada. 3. One such Candidate is Nijjar, who arrived in Canada with fake documents and later became an influential leader. 4. Due to the unique system of Canadian democracy. The Sikh minorities made a lot of progress in Canadian politics with the help of religious leaders. 5. These religious leaders believe in Khalistan’s existence. 6. The leaders also gained funding, resources and intelligence from Pakistan’s ISI, which has started the campaign of asymmetric warfare against India under the doctrine of ‘bleeding India with thousand cuts’. 7. This also caused Khalistani to ignore Punjab in Pakistan (more sacred) and focus on separating Indian Punjab. Phase 4 1. Sikhs became a significant force in Canadian politics, with most politicians being Khalistan sympathisers or apologists. 2. They have systematically protected the existence of fundamentalists from Canadian government sanctions. 3. During the decades, many khalistani elements have been involved in drug, weapons and gang networks in Punjab through ISI. There have been increasing signs of Khalistan activity in Punjab. 4. Canada keeps on ignoring India’s request to extradite criminals seeking shelter in canda. The situation becomes tense when the assailant of an Indian minister visits India as Trudeau’s entourage. 5. There has been increasing hostility and attempted attacks on the Indian consulate in Canada. 6. There were reports of a planned bombing in the theatre in India by Nijjar in 2018. Phase 5 1. Nijjar, who is declared a terrorist in India, is killed by ‘unknown’ assailants. 2. Trudeau declares India as the culprit, with the support of five eyes 3. India vehemently denies and asks for proper evidence 4. Trudeau presses on the charges to gain Sikh support to stay as Prime Minister 5. India and Canada have diplomatic face-offs that continue today. 6. The main parties in India, BJP and Congress, unite on this issue to oppose Trudeau (first time ever). 7. Canadian mainstream media hails Nijjar as a religious preacher and innocent civilian

Most Punjabi are not of Sikhs Faith most Punjabis are Muslims they belongs to Pakistan Punjab they constitute 99% of Pakistani Punjab population And in Indian Punjab Sikhs are 59% and Punjabi Hindus are 41% and few other Punjabi minorities which includes Christian and Buddhists different sects also this movement also majority Sikhs are from dalit background who doesn't believe in extrimism or fundamentalism as they mingle with other faith fairly these khalistanis are mostly upper caste called Jatts who want sikh state also this movement is not present in India but in foreign lands.

The most suspicious thing is that these Khalistanis dont want the part of Punjab in Pakistan even though the Sikhs in Pakistan have been oppressed to the point that there are no Sikhs in Pakistan but these Khalistani only want a separate country from India. The most hilarious thing is that these Khalistanis are proposing a seperate country without its actual capital of Lahore in Pakistan. All this rather seems to be a plot against India rather than these Khalistanis actually wanting a seperate country. Bet even if their dream comes true and they have their own seperate country, will they leave Canada for it? I don't think so.

I will still love how this incident united India , left and right , north and south into saying "yeah , fck that terrorist "

Plot twist: It's JJ himslef who's doing the voiceover work

You have ignored the background of Nijjar. His visa got rejected twice due to fake passport. He managed to get PR by marrying a citizen and political help.

I'm three-fourths into this, and I lean toward understanding India's alleged actions as necessary, given a soft-on-terrorism trend in Canadian justice and culture. Still, people should proceed rationally in their next steps on how they respond to these developments.

The funny thing is that the opening sequence in which JJ talks about how his production cycle precluded him from discussing the India affair could just as easily be applied to this week's video and his inability to go in-depth on the whole Parliamentary Nazi debacle. Canadian politics has really become a circus lately.

Facts no 1 in Punjab there is not belonging only Sikhs..there r Hindu Punjabi also live..may b its ratio is 60/40 Singh is taking Sar name from Hindu Rajput..that Famous for bravrary ..Singh is adopted sarname from Hindus after 1699

Nice presentation. Thanks for understanding that most Canadians are oblivious of foreign countries, mostly Asian. You should remember that it's in habit of Canada to shelter not only terrorists recognized by India, but also by other countries. For example, primary assassin of Bangladeshi freedom fighter and prime minister Sekh Mujibur Rahaman , or recently exposed nazi fighter lauded in the Canadian parliament. It's easier to say that both governments should isolate internal politics from foreign one , but when our national interests are trampled down by some foreign leader's callousness, we do care. Every country should respect other country's sovereignty and it goes both ways.

Ireland did more when it comes to Air India bombing than Canada did. Most of the casualties were Canadians. That says a lot about Canada tbh.

Honestly, a fair assessment of the whole situation. I might've added a tidbit that the anti-Khalistani stance is bipartisan in India and Modi himself hasn't done anything new or different from what is expected of any Indian govt but like you said, this video is more a Canadian perspective of the issue. Fair is fair.

As a Canadian, I've lived and worked with many Sikhs and have found them to be very honorable, charitable, hard working, and community minded. I've even looked into their religion and found it more progressive and open than most others I've looked into. Meanwhile, those few who use violence seem to run against their religions core values. I hope this matter can be resolved peacefully. But as usual, im sure our current Government will screw it up and somehow manage to make things worse.

We Indians there is a saying " Half Doctor is dangerous to health". Like this your comment is not understanding the geopolitical grounds in India and Canada. Also you have not mentioned kicking out the embassy staff by Canada and India.

Now you have to make another video that thrusts Canadian politics into the spotlight. The "Nazi Parliament incident".

As a India who always loved your content as regularly watches it, i was waiting for this video sa i wanted to hear what people from canada think about the situation, a very well made video as always... Thank You for making this video JJ

As Canadian i say we got CRY BABY 🍼🐥 girl JUSTIN TRUDO whereas India has POWERFUL Modi

I was feeling bad previously that you didn't provide an opinion on this matter and seeing it was most honest opinion without hiding details and facts which was done by our Indian media and global media too as per there convenience. But one thing I was noticing that you mentioned that breaking diplomatic ties was a mistake I think because what I know first step was taken by Canadian foreign minister by removing our top diplomat there in Canada which created chain of events leading to this breakout with Canada somehow

Recently the Indian Ambassador to UK was invited by Gurudwara committee but the local-radical Khalistanis did not let him in( Even though he was Punjabi himself.

As an Indo-Canadian, I'm sorry to say that I just want to leave Canada unless things get better with India. Because after all, I'm Indian first, only then I became a naturalized citizen of Canada. So if Canada can't get their act together, I will never be able to go visit my folks back home. Sadly true! Long-term, if this is not fixed, I'd want to go back to India no matter how much I love being in Canada.

Bro, first of all you need to get correct map of India with full Jammu and Kashmir state.

Total number of shikh in India is around 20 million out of them. Guess not even 2% of in favour of khalistan.

J.J., I was intrigued by the candidate selection process that parties in Canada use. It reminds me of the now-largely-extinct *caucus* process in some U.S. States. The only remnant of this is the way a few states, including Iowa, select delegates to the presidential nominating conventions.

It was irrelevant to bring modi govt's views on this. Time and again, be it the Gandhi's, Narsimha Rao, Vajpeyi or Manmohan Singh, all of whom who came before modi and from whichever political party, every one of them have brought this issue to Canada's notice about the growing threat of The K group and even in 2018, when Trudeau visited India, the CM of Punjab whi was from an opposing party gave a cold shoulder to him and even communicated the list of terrorists that they should extradite. So, this isn't a bjp issue at all.

Thank you, J.J. That was a very enlightening and balanced presentation of the background to the recent contentious events in the news. It clarified admirably the situation for this American.