India-Canada Row: Jagmeet Singh Urges Trudeau to Ban RSS, Pushes for Severe Sanctions on India

Canadian Sikh leader Jagmeet Singh called for a ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and sanctions against Indian diplomats following allegations by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that Indian diplomats were involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist. Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), had previously supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government but now demands decisive actions in response to these accusations.

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00:30Urge Canada to ban the RSS, which is a right-wing extremist militant group from India that has

00:55branches in other countries, including in Canada.

01:02United to do everything possible to protect Canadians.

01:10I don't want the Indian government or Modi to think they've got someone in Canada.

01:19The RCMP allegations that were shared, the information that was shared yesterday, are

01:24deeply, deeply disturbing.

01:26The RCMP basically painted a picture that a foreign government is engaging criminal

01:32elements in Canada to perpetrate violence against Canadians, including shooting at homes,

01:40shooting at Canadians' homes, killing Canadians, shooting at Canadian businesses,

01:46shooting at Canadian communities.

01:49We saw in the past year an uptake, a serious increase in gun violence.

01:54And the RCMP is pointing to the fact that a portion of that, a significant portion,

01:58can be attributed to a foreign government hiring criminal elements.

02:02This is a threat to anyone that lives in those communities.

02:05Anyone that has family in those communities, kids playing in the parks where those homes

02:09were shot at or those businesses were shot at.

02:11This is serious.

02:14I love our country.

02:16I love our democracy.

02:18I would do anything to protect it.

02:21I can't imagine or understand any political leader who wouldn't also do anything to

02:26protect our country.

02:27And that's why it troubles me deeply that Pierre Polyev is unwilling to receive security

02:34clearance and to fully understand what's going on.

02:37I don't want the Indian government, which is who the RCMP has implicated in this, and

02:42the Modi government specifically, I don't want the Indian government or Modi to think

02:47they've got someone in Canada who's willing to look the other way to ignore what's going

02:51on.

02:52We need to take an approach where we're all on the same side, that we're all denouncing

02:56this serious series of allegations, and that we're standing united to do everything possible

03:02to protect Canadians.

03:04That's why my team will be calling for an emergency meeting of the Public Safety Committee

03:11to look at other steps we can take to keep Canadians safe.

03:15We will also urge Canada to ban the RSS, which is a right-wing extremist militant group from

03:23India that has branches in other countries, including in Canada, that promotes violence

03:28and division.

03:30We'll also urge Canada to impose severe and strict sanctions on Indian diplomats.

03:38We need to take every step possible to keep Canadians safe.

03:41The RCMP has exposed a very serious threat, and now let's take that threat seriously and

03:46act accordingly.

India-Canada Row: Jagmeet Singh Urges Trudeau to Ban RSS, Pushes for Severe Sanctions on India

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