The Vancouver Sun quoting unnamed police sources had reported immediately after the attack that it was a contracted hit off the dark web that the police had known of and made the victim aware of before the hit. This information was then never repeated. The police who are routinely seen in the area didn’t respond for 15 minutes after more than 60 bullets had been fired.
There is a lot more here than anyone is willing to admit.
Postmedia has learned that the police are looking at two potential motives — that Nijjar was killed because of his Khalistan activism, or that it was related to a more local political dispute in Surrey.
Another source said a contract on Nijjar had been circulating for several weeks on an encrypted online site used to hire gang hitmen.
That source said so many middleman would have been involved in arranging the murder that it may be impossible to track the person or people who plotted it.
[Look at the marked difference in how news of Chinese interference in Canadian elections was handled.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64813182) Despite the implications being far greater the response is muted.
Assuming the evidence against India is as good as Trudeau insists, could Canada have had a private negotiation with India and obtained a favorable trade deal instead? Wouldn’t that be more reasonable?
Why did Trudeau go public with allegations when there’s even less evidence than with the Chinese which he sought to downplay?
Cui buono? Who benefits from India and Canada relations going sour? China seems like a prime candidate.
Does China possess the capability to fool five eyes with a false trail that points at India?
Intelligence isn’t evidence, evidence isn’t proof. Of the thousands who were locked up in black sites including Guantanamo only a few dozen went to trial and only five got convicted. Even with the liberties allowed to interrogators at such sites proof was hard to obtain. Advisors to Trudeau would have surely pointed this out. You don’t bet international relations on hearsay.
Whatever I’ve outlined is open-source and logic 101. The experts surely figured this out on day one, for whatever reason they have chosen to let the media run this dog and pony show.
Reports are saying India also expelled Canadian diplomats now.
This is but plain posturing. A Canadian citizen was allegedly murdered and the Canadian government needs to make a statement of some sort to avoid looking weak to its citizens and the international community which is why this empty posturing has started.
If the Indian government was involved in some capacity, they thought they could get away with it and they probably will. Canada is not a very crucial trading partner for India and what they import from Canada they can get elsewhere and vice versa. The political goodwill earned domestically by the Modi government for putting down a hated terrorist probably makes up for the loss due to damaged relations with Canada.
Canada has followed the US’s lead as far as foreign policy is concerned. With the passage of time, the US will at most give India a rap on the wrist and ask it to stop the assassinations. The US will also lead back channel talks to normalise relations between India and Canada.
In a year or two, you will find the Canadian PM and Modi hugging each other again at some international summit. Also, India will probably look to again target other Khalistani separatists in Canada if they believe that they can get away with it again.
It’s pretty stupid of the Canadian government to say that they expelled the diplomats after saying that they were persons of interest in the Nijjar killing. And before the the expulsion statement came out, The Indian MEA, in its statement, made it clear that India feels that its diplomats are not safe in Canada. It’s clear that India called its diplomats back.
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so important point to note that he wasn’t a Canadian citizen, in fact he was denied Canadian citizenship multiple times
and to those saying he was citizen via marriage
Canada has no concept of citizenship via marriage
[https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=357&top=5](https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=357&top=5)
The Vancouver Sun quoting unnamed police sources had reported immediately after the attack that it was a contracted hit off the dark web that the police had known of and made the victim aware of before the hit. This information was then never repeated. The police who are routinely seen in the area didn’t respond for 15 minutes after more than 60 bullets had been fired.
There is a lot more here than anyone is willing to admit.
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[https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/ihit-plans-to-consult-spy-agency-over-surrey-temple-killing](https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/ihit-plans-to-consult-spy-agency-over-surrey-temple-killing)
Postmedia has learned that the police are looking at two potential motives — that Nijjar was killed because of his Khalistan activism, or that it was related to a more local political dispute in Surrey.
Another source said a contract on Nijjar had been circulating for several weeks on an encrypted online site used to hire gang hitmen.
That source said so many middleman would have been involved in arranging the murder that it may be impossible to track the person or people who plotted it.
[Look at the marked difference in how news of Chinese interference in Canadian elections was handled.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64813182) Despite the implications being far greater the response is muted.
Assuming the evidence against India is as good as Trudeau insists, could Canada have had a private negotiation with India and obtained a favorable trade deal instead? Wouldn’t that be more reasonable?
Why did Trudeau go public with allegations when there’s even less evidence than with the Chinese which he sought to downplay?
Cui buono? Who benefits from India and Canada relations going sour? China seems like a prime candidate.
Does China possess the capability to fool five eyes with a false trail that points at India?
Intelligence isn’t evidence, evidence isn’t proof. Of the thousands who were locked up in black sites including Guantanamo only a few dozen went to trial and only five got convicted. Even with the liberties allowed to interrogators at such sites proof was hard to obtain. Advisors to Trudeau would have surely pointed this out. You don’t bet international relations on hearsay.
Whatever I’ve outlined is open-source and logic 101. The experts surely figured this out on day one, for whatever reason they have chosen to let the media run this dog and pony show.
Reports are saying India also expelled Canadian diplomats now.
This is but plain posturing. A Canadian citizen was allegedly murdered and the Canadian government needs to make a statement of some sort to avoid looking weak to its citizens and the international community which is why this empty posturing has started.
If the Indian government was involved in some capacity, they thought they could get away with it and they probably will. Canada is not a very crucial trading partner for India and what they import from Canada they can get elsewhere and vice versa. The political goodwill earned domestically by the Modi government for putting down a hated terrorist probably makes up for the loss due to damaged relations with Canada.
Canada has followed the US’s lead as far as foreign policy is concerned. With the passage of time, the US will at most give India a rap on the wrist and ask it to stop the assassinations. The US will also lead back channel talks to normalise relations between India and Canada.
In a year or two, you will find the Canadian PM and Modi hugging each other again at some international summit. Also, India will probably look to again target other Khalistani separatists in Canada if they believe that they can get away with it again.
It’s pretty stupid of the Canadian government to say that they expelled the diplomats after saying that they were persons of interest in the Nijjar killing. And before the the expulsion statement came out, The Indian MEA, in its statement, made it clear that India feels that its diplomats are not safe in Canada. It’s clear that India called its diplomats back.