India has long been annoyed that militant separatists are tolerated in Canada. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – Canada and India have fundamental and irreconcilable differences over free speech, yet Canada should understand India’s security concerns over advocates of Khalistan separatism who are active in the country, said Georgetown University professor Christine Fair.
Khalistan is the proposed Sikh homeland that separatists want carved out of the Indian state of Punjab. Sikhs make up a little over 2 per cent of Canada’s population. In British Columbia, Sikhs comprise around 6 per cent of the province’s population. In Surrey, where Mr Nijjar was killed, Sikhs make up 27.4 per cent of the population.
Still, the West is going to have to “figure out a way to accommodate India’s legitimate security concerns because we expect India to accommodate ours”, she said.“Delhi is expected to jump through our hoops, but when Delhi asks us to jump through some of their hoops, and we decline to do so, there is a lot of resentment generated. And so I think that we have to find ways of being much more vigilant and taking on these Indian requests.
“In the UK, since the Terror Act of 2006, you cannot glorify terrorism, that’s an offence. But in Canada, we don’t have such legislation. So you can.”
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