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The doxxing of Canada
« Reply #101 on: February 21, 2022, 08:20:02 PM »


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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #105 on: February 22, 2022, 10:21:18 AM »
well we could call him "Justin Castro" in Toronto

and "Fidelito Castreau" in Montreal ......

 :wink:

In the US we call him worse names.......

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #106 on: February 22, 2022, 10:40:26 AM »
well we could call him "Justin Castro" in Toronto

and "Fidelito Castreau" in Montreal ...

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The pro-government forces project that the honk honk of the truckers means Heil Hitler, right while the government moves toward Nazi-like Fascism at a speed that would make the former Führer blush.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #107 on: February 23, 2022, 03:49:27 AM »
WSJ:

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Tyranny
Ottawa is now freezing bank accounts as if the truckers are terrorists.
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Feb. 22, 2022 6:35 pm ET


Modern liberals can hurtle from extravagant tolerance to suppression without batting an eye. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dramatizes the tendency.

Every trucker blockade in Canada has been cleared, yet Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal government isn’t giving up the emergency powers it claimed to criminalize the protest movement against vaccine mandates. “This state of emergency is not over,” Mr. Trudeau said, citing the risk of future blockades. This isn’t how a nation of laws is supposed to function.

Mr. Trudeau’s new powers rely on defining the disruptive but peaceful truckers as a security threat akin to violent terrorists. His emergency law, a broad prohibition on public assemblies and even indirect support for them, ensnares tens of thousands of Canadians as “designated persons” whose assets must, per another of his new laws, be found and frozen by any financial institution, without due process or court supervision. There isn’t an appeals process in case of error, and so far 200 accounts are frozen.

Pressed for details, Justice Minister David Lametti initially explained that “pro-Trump” big donors “ought to be worried.” Now the government says it is targeting only the truckers, but its power has no limiting principle.

Mr. Lametti says, “We took measures that had been applied to terrorism and applied them to other illegal activity.” This is how a trucker who violated traffic laws or committed “mischief” becomes the target of financial tools designed to disable al Qaeda cells.

Bank-account freezes weren’t necessary to clear the blockades. That required police only to arrest those blocking traffic and to requisition tow trucks (already authorized by Canada’s criminal code). The asset freezes serve not to end an emergency but to incapacitate and intimidate protesters after the fact.

Parliament declined Monday night to revoke Mr. Trudeau’s emergency. He prevailed with the support of the socialist New Democratic Party, which once prided itself like others on the left as a defender of civil liberties. “We understood absolutely that we do not want to trigger an election,” said leader Jagmeet Singh, cowed by Mr. Trudeau’s threat. “That would be the worst thing to do in this crisis.”

The vote captured the left-liberal pas de deux that has led to abuse of emergency powers. Ottawa’s police chief was a progressive and, as progressives do, he let protesters violate the law with impunity—for weeks. This exasperated Canadians who wanted order and commerce restored. The Liberals blamed foreign interference and lambasted the truckers along trendy American lines as racists and insurrectionists. Then Mr. Trudeau stepped in to curtail the rights of political enemies.

In December 2020 Mr. Trudeau chided India for its police response to farmers’ blockades of Delhi. “Let me remind you,” he said, “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.” Mr. Trudeau prattles on about rights half a world away but won’t respect them half a block from Parliament.

Canada’s government is obliged by law to hold a public inquiry on the state of emergency. The courts could also rule against Mr. Trudeau, throwing into question convictions against truckers and leaving Canadians to wonder what the Prime Minister could have been thinking. Mr. Trudeau may then find there is a real emergency—to the survival of his government.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #108 on: February 23, 2022, 04:38:38 AM »
While we fight against the expansion of authoritarian, totalitarian regimes Russia and China around the world , Canada turns into one.
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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #109 on: February 23, 2022, 06:04:49 AM »
Trudeau won with the lowest popular vote in Canadian history

32%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election


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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #110 on: February 23, 2022, 06:48:29 AM »
Trudeau won with the lowest popular vote in Canadian history

32%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election

And people in the US want to get away from the two party system which is supposed to move both sides to the middle and get 50+% of the vote for the winner.  Sorry, these other systems are not better.
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« Reply #111 on: February 23, 2022, 03:09:17 PM »
Canada Instructs Banks to Unfreeze Freedom-Convoy Accounts
Finance official tells lawmakers process started Monday, days after police largely shut down Covid-19 protest in capital

Demonstrators outside Parliament earlier this month.
PHOTO: ED JONES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
By Paul Vieira
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Updated Feb. 22, 2022 11:46 pm ET


OTTAWA—Canada told banks to unlock financial accounts belonging to individuals involved in a weekslong Covid-19 protest in Ottawa that police shut down this past weekend, according to a finance ministry official.

“They started [Monday] to unfreeze accounts,” Isabelle Jacques, a senior official in Canada’s finance department, told lawmakers Tuesday.

The step marks a reversal for the Liberal government, which has argued the sweeping power to freeze bank accounts and other assets was crucial during what was declared an emergency period.

The power became available over a week ago, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked rarely used emergency measures in an effort to end a roughly three-week protest calling for all Covid-19 vaccine mandates and related social restrictions to be rescinded. The Ottawa protest, involving thousands of individuals and hundreds of trucks, inspired blockades at crucial U.S.-Canada border crossings.


A representative from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police didn’t respond Tuesday evening to a request for comment about why officials started unlocking financial accounts.


On Monday, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the freezings, which some financial-law experts warned could affect people unaffiliated with the protest.

“These measures were put in place to disrupt illegal activity in Canada,” she said. “We were very clear that we would be following the money, that we would be using financial tools to disrupt illegal blockades and occupations. The focus absolutely has been on leaders and on the vehicles that were such an important part of the illegal blockades and occupations.”

“The way to get your account unfrozen is to stop being part of the blockade and occupation,” she added.

A key U.S.-Canada trade corridor has reopened for travelers and freight, marking an end to protests over Covid-19 restrictions that lasted roughly a week and caused economic repercussions. Photo: Nicole Osborne/Associated Press
The organizers of the Ottawa protest said in a statement posted on social media that the freezing of bank accounts and other financial assets has shocked Canadians. “The more severe implication, however, is that by using [emergency powers] as financial warfare, it will sow mistrust in both the banking system and the government and the repercussions will be felt for years to come.”

A representative for the organizers, who operate under the Freedom Convoy banner, didn’t respond to a request for comment about Canadian officials’ instructing banks to start unlocking accounts.



Under the same cabinet order allowing authorities to freeze bank accounts, police could also designate certain areas—including the streets around Ottawa’s Parliament Hill—as no-protest zones, where demonstrators could be subject to arrest, and compel service providers, like tow-truck operators, to remove vehicles.


The Canadian legislature voted Monday to extend the emergency powers for a total 30-day period. The extension still requires approval from the Senate, whose members are appointed by the prime minister and which rarely overturns measures approved by the lower house.

A senior RCMP official said the emergency powers, including the ability to choke off financial support, were crucial in ending the protest. The RCMP said financial institutions had frozen over 200 accounts belonging to individuals and one held by a payment processor with a value of 3.8 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to $3 million. Police had also ceased transactions involving 253 cryptocurrency addresses.

Police said this week that the accounts they told financial institutions to freeze belong to individuals considered central organizers in the Ottawa blockade, and owners or drivers of vehicles who refused to leave the area, but not people who donated to the protest through crowdfunding Web sites.

Write to Paul Vieira at paul.vieira@wsj.com

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Dahlia Lithwick
« Reply #113 on: February 24, 2022, 06:55:08 AM »
there is a whole wiki piece on this lib

of course Yale undergrad and JD from Stanford

and long list of liberal endeavors from
one of the self righteous:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_Lithwick


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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #115 on: February 28, 2022, 03:04:34 AM »
Ran across this meme:

"Pay Attention!  Not one western leader has condemned the actions of Trudeau!"

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #116 on: March 07, 2022, 12:41:28 PM »

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #117 on: March 07, 2022, 12:56:02 PM »
Ran across this meme:

"Pay Attention!  Not one western leader has condemned the actions of Trudeau!"

Canada and Australia are the testing grounds for what they want to do here.

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Re: Trudeau: No right to use a gun for self defense
« Reply #122 on: June 12, 2022, 08:36:46 AM »
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1535383099147689984

At the time that the US splits in two, there may be regions/provinces of Canada wanting to join the freedom side of the divide.

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Re: Trudeau: No right to use a gun for self defense
« Reply #123 on: June 12, 2022, 08:31:39 PM »

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Re: Trudeau: No right to use a gun for self defense
« Reply #125 on: June 13, 2022, 07:43:18 AM »
"Alberta for sure.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/wexit-alberta-join-united-states."


C'mon in!

Alberta has oil.  Saskatchewan has Uranium. (And good hockey.)

Maybe we just want a land bridge to Alaska like the Russians want to Crimea.

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Re: Trudeau: No right to use a gun for self defense
« Reply #126 on: June 13, 2022, 07:48:18 AM »
"Alberta for sure.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/wexit-alberta-join-united-states."


C'mon in!

Alberta has oil.  Saskatchewan has Uranium. (And good hockey.)

Maybe we just want a land bridge to Alaska like the Russians want to Crimea.

Crushing Soviet Canuckistan's fake and gay military won't be an issue.

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WSJ: The Campaign to Re-Educated Jordan Peterson
« Reply #130 on: January 05, 2023, 12:02:11 PM »
The Campaign to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson
For speaking his mind, the psychologist could lose his license.
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Updated Jan. 4, 2023 1:55 pm ET


You would think Canadians had learned by now not to tell Jordan Peterson what to say. The psychology professor became an internet sensation in 2016 after arguing that Canadian legislation amounted to “compelled speech” on gender pronouns. Now the College of Psychologists of Ontario is demanding that Mr. Peterson acknowledge he “lacked professionalism” in public statements and undergo a “coaching program” of remedial education.

Maybe the new commissars missed Mr. Peterson’s videos praising Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the man who said: “Live not by lies.” Mr. Peterson won’t comply, and he says he’ll now face a disciplinary committee that could revoke his license to practice.

The College of Psychologists, the profession’s governing body in Ontario, appointed an investigator in March to examine complaints about Mr. Peterson’s comments on Twitter and the popular Joe Rogan podcast. On Nov. 22, the College’s panel released a decision. Per images provided by Mr. Peterson, the panel ruled: “The comments at issue appear to undermine the public trust in the profession as a whole, and raise questions about your ability to carry out your responsibilities as a psychologist.”

What are these comments? Calling Elliot Page, the transgender actor, by her former name, “Ellen,” and the pronoun “her,” on Twitter. Calling an adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “prik.” A sarcastic crack at antigrowth environmentalists for not caring that their energy policies lead to more deaths of poor Third World children.


Calling a former client “vindictive.” Objecting to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover of a plus-size model: “Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” In Canada even offenses begin with “sorry.”

“The impact risk in this case is significant,” the panel found, because the comments “may cause harm.” It counseled Mr. Peterson that coaching would help “mitigate any risks to the public.” The College of Psychologists declined to comment on the case, citing confidentiality.

Mr. Peterson responded sensibly: “Who exactly was harmed, how, when, to what degree, and how was that harm measured”? He says there have been about a dozen formal complaints since 2017, each one demanding a formal reply. One complainant cited Mr. Peterson’s Twitter response to a critic worried about overpopulation: “You’re free to leave at any point.” Mr. Peterson thinks the investigations aren’t about mitigating harm but preventing free expression, and that “the process is the punishment,” giving online detractors an effective way to badger him.

Professional bodies are supposed to ensure that practitioners are competent, not enforce political orthodoxies or act as language police outside the office. But that’s the trend in Western medical associations and beyond. The Law Society of Ontario had pushed a mandatory diversity pledge for all lawyers until a members’ revolt took over the board and nixed the pledge in 2019. At the time, an Ontario lawyer objected to the “ever-expanding mission to socially engineer the profession.”

Sounds like an issue of id, ego and superego. You could ask a psychologist about it.

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China tampered with Canadian elections
« Reply #134 on: February 26, 2023, 05:10:39 PM »

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Priorities in Soviet Canuckistan
« Reply #135 on: March 01, 2023, 07:14:32 AM »
Maxime Bernier:

Trudeau doesn’t have enough money for disabled veterans and they’re offered MAID [assisted suicide] instead.

But he has enough to give $75k to civil servants who want to mutilate their bodies to look like the other sex.



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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #138 on: May 11, 2023, 04:16:05 PM »
We must figure we are alone.  There is nowhere to run to.  Are we frogs in the pot slowly being heated to boil? 

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"Are we frogs in the pot slowly being heated to boil?"
« Reply #139 on: May 11, 2023, 04:24:03 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

I remember see on cable history show of Nero how he would take delight in torturing people this way

MY GOD !   :cry:

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #140 on: May 12, 2023, 06:35:50 AM »
We must figure we are alone.  There is nowhere to run to.  Are we frogs in the pot slowly being heated to boil?

I have been assured that we can just vote harder and everything will be fine.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #141 on: May 12, 2023, 07:07:50 AM »
"I have been assured that we can just vote harder and everything will be fine."

I disagree
No one on this board is assuring you voting  will guarantee our desired result

But we have to keep trying

Not voting WILL  guarantee we lose for sure !

so why don't we recognize this ?

keep voting keep fighting AND prepare for the worst. 









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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #142 on: May 12, 2023, 07:20:30 AM »
I vote. I know that at the federal level, it's meaningless. You should too.


"I have been assured that we can just vote harder and everything will be fine."

I disagree
No one on this board is assuring you voting  will guarantee our desired result

But we have to keep trying

Not voting WILL  guarantee we lose for sure !

so why don't we recognize this ?

keep voting keep fighting AND prepare for the worst.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #143 on: May 12, 2023, 08:05:11 AM »
Woof!

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Michigander plans the liberation of Canada
« Reply #145 on: August 13, 2023, 08:39:02 AM »
I suppose this could go under humor, but they do need liberating (and so do we).

Long, detailed plan.

https://notthebee.com/article/this-guy-came-up-with-a-very-detailed-plan-to-conquer-canada-and-people-are-loving-it-in-the-replies


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More follow up; Canada-India
« Reply #147 on: September 25, 2023, 02:13:38 PM »
Canada, Are You Feeling Okay?

The immediate and most embarrassing problem for the Canadian government this morning is that the term “fought with the Nazis” does not always mean “fought against the Nazis” — it can also mean “fought in support of the Nazis.” If you’re going to invite a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran of World War II to a session of Canada’s Parliament during a visit by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, you had better make darn sure you know which side he was on.

Alas, Canadian speaker of the House Anthony Rota did not do that, and managed to lead the Canadian House of Commons Friday in a standing ovation for a man who fought in the volunteer First Ukrainian Division, which “was also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS — referred to as the SS Galichina — and considered part of the Germany’s Nazi war machine”:

“We have here in chamber, today, a Ukrainian Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”

Everybody in the commons rose to their feet in applause as Rota spoke.

“His name is Jaroslav Hunka, I am very proud to say he is from North Bay and my riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming. He is a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero and we thank him for all his service.”

As those of you who have cracked a history book know, as messy, bloody, and complicated as the history of southeastern Europe is, the side that was fighting against Russia in World War II was . . . the Nazis. (Let’s pause to point out that the Soviets committed their share of war crimes and mass murder of imprisoned civilians and political prisoners in Ukraine, too. This is not a pro-Nazi statement, just an observation of the historical fact that the Eastern Front didn’t have many combatants we would consider to be good guys.) The history of the First Ukrainian Division/Galacia Division during World War II is dark, bloody, and grim, with plenty of executions of civilians and praise from Heinrich Himmler. The only silver lining is that in the 1980s, the Canadian government established a Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes, and concluded:

Charges of war crimes of Galicia Division have never been substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in 1984 when they were renewed, or before this Commission. . . . In the absence of evidence of participation or knowledge of specific war crimes, mere membership in the Galicia Division is insufficient to justify prosecution.

The Ukrainian delegation and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, upon learning of the facts about Hunka, apologized and insisted the invitation wasn’t cleared with them. But as our Dominic Pino observes, for an error like this to occur, it requires some spectacular historical ignorance on the part of more than one individual:

Political operations like this don’t get planned by one person. How many people in Rota’s office — and the prime minister’s office, which would have likely been involved in planning this event — missed that someone fighting against the Russians in Eastern Europe during World War II might have some connection to the Nazis? Or at the very least, remember that at that point Canada was allied with the Russians against the Nazis?

It’s not as though World War II is a minor event in Canadian history. Over a million Canadians served in the war, and Canadian forces successfully led the assault on one of the five beaches on D-Day. That ought to be a source of national pride and be firmly secure in national memory.

For what it’s worth, Rota says no one else in the Canadian government knew he was going to salute Hunka.

As if the embarrassment wasn’t bad enough, Canada just handed Russia more easy fodder for propaganda that the Ukrainians are the real Nazis, and that the dictator who’s breaking treaties, hinting at global conspiracies involving Jews, and constantly bombing civilians — the dictator who has kidnapped at least 19,000 children — is the real hero of this war.

This morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, “Such sloppiness of memory is outrageous. Many Western countries, including Canada, have raised a young generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the Second World War. And they know nothing about the threat of fascism.” The Kremlin is a pack of damnable liars, but that’s a fair criticism of Canada.

The second biggest problem for Canada this morning is that it is now in something of a Cold War with India, because apparently the Indian government used its intelligence services to execute a Sikh activist in Vancouver.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in the parking lot of a Sikh temple on June 18. He was an activist in the movement of Sikh separatists who want to create an independent ethno-religious state in the northern Punjab region of India.

To hear the Indian government tell it, Nijjar was a terrorist, the leader of a group called the Khalistan Tiger Force. The government issued an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest in 2014 and offered a reward of roughly $12,000 for information about him.

The Canadian government was and is skeptical of the Indian government’s claims, and treated Nijjar like just another dissident — although it’s possible there’s more to the story. Nijjar’s son claimed that his father was regularly meeting with Canadian intelligence officials:

Balraj Singh Nijjar, 21, said his father had been meeting with Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers “once or twice a week,” including one or two days before the June 18 murder, with another meeting scheduled for two days after his death.

The meetings had started in February and had increased in frequency in the following three or four months, he said in an interview on Tuesday.

He said he also attended a meeting between his father and the RCMP last year in which they were told about threats to Nijjar’s life.

His father was advised to “stay at home,” he said.

As of August 15, at least publicly, Prime Minister Trudeau’s stance was that all was well between the Canadian and Indian governments. He issued a statement on Indian Independence Day reaffirming that, “as the world’s largest democracy, India is — and will continue to be — a key partner for Canada in the promotion of our shared values of democracy, pluralism, and progress. We are committed to building on this rich history of collaboration, including under India’s presidency of the G20 this year.”

But during the G-20 Summit in New Delhi in early September, the statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinted that Trudeau had raised the issue of Nijjar murder:

Prime Minister [Modi] highlighted that India-Canada relations are anchored in shared democratic values, respect for rule of law and strong people-to-people ties. He conveyed our strong concerns about continuing anti-India activities of extremist elements in Canada. They are promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats, damaging diplomatic premises, and threatening the Indian community in Canada and their places of worship. The nexus of such forces with organized crime, drug syndicates and human trafficking should be a concern for Canada as well. It is essential for the two countries to cooperate in dealing with such threats.

Then, a week ago, Trudeau addressed the Canadian House of Commons and dropped a bombshell: “Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar.”

“Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and security officials of the Indian government. Last week, at the G20, I brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Modi in no uncertain terms. Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” he continued.

If the Indian government’s version of events is right, then the Canadian government was, presumably out of naivete or denial, protecting and regularly meeting with a terrorist attacking India. If the Canadian government’s version of events is right, then the Indian government is just straight up assassinating its critics, legal citizens of foreign countries, on foreign soil, where they’re supposed to be protected by the other country’s citizenship and sovereignty.

What the Indian government is alleged to have done is uncomfortably similar to the Saudi government’s execution and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist and U.S. green-card holder Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Abusing activists, dissidents, and political prisoners on your own soil is bad enough. But running operations to kill them in somebody else’s country is meant to send a message that dissidents aren’t safe anywhere.

And this is an American news story and diplomatic headache as well. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported that after Nijjar was assassinated, the U.S. intelligence community provided the Canadians with additional information pointing to the Indian government’s role.

As the Times put it:

A spokesman for the White House declined to comment. U.S. officials were reluctant to discuss the killing because although Washington wants to assist Canada, a close ally, it does not want to alienate India, a partner with which it is hoping to expand ties as a counterbalance to China’s rising influence in Asia.

As the Journal put it:

U.S. officials are reluctant to talk about the alleged assassination plot at the same time the Biden administration is eager to forge closer ties with India to counter China, though President Biden’s national-security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said last week the accusation was a “matter of concern.”

Note that President Biden hosted Modi at the White House a few days after the killing and Biden gushed about Modi’s commitment to democracy and universal human rights:

Mr. Prime Minister, we’ve met many times over the past few years, most recently in Hiroshima at the G7 Summit. And each time, I was struck by our ability to find new areas of cooperation.

Together, we’re unlocking a shared future of what I believe to be unlimited potential.

And with this visit, we’re demonstrating once more how India and the United States are collaborating on nearly every human endeavor and delivering progress across the board. . . .

Let me be — close with this: Indians and Americans are both peoples who innovate and create, turn obstacles into opportunities, who find strength in community and family, and who cherish freedom and celebrate the democratic values of universal human rights, which face challenges around the world and each — and in each of our countries but which remain so vital to the success of each of our nations: press freedom, religious freedom, tolerance, diversity.

I mean . . . do Modi and his government “cherish freedom and celebrate the democratic values of universal human rights”? That claim looks kind of sketchy this morning.

Diplomacy and foreign policy require us to prioritize what issues matter to us the most. Perhaps keeping India aligned with the U.S. against China is our most important priority. But turning a blind eye to Indian government agents’ just straight up murdering critics on the soil of an ally is a tough pill to swallow.

ADDENDUM: The Hollywood writers’ strike appears to be over. As discussed Friday, the pressure of next year’s film- and television-production schedule being at risk probably forced everyone to be more reasonable and find some acceptable compromise.