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Riots, thoughtcrime law and a blueprint for Canada's very own UNRWA

A delay in this newsletter’s appearance owing to developing stories I’m covering, then a power outage from fierce winds, and having to turn to the crazyhouse American presidential election means this Real Story will be a roundup with notes on what’s to come.

In last Thursday’s National Post I wrote up some of the results of an exhausting review of the final report of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools. Over the weekend I spent even more time I’ll never get back going through its various addenda and appendices.

All told it’s more like 2,300 pages, and it’s what you would expect from what I described without exaggeration as something like a jargon-jumbled critical theory dissertation and syllabus on “settler colonialism.” But it’s even more sinister than I thought.

The tragedy in all this is that what Justin Trudeau’s government has nurtured and lavishly funded here is the logical denouement of his government’s effort to impose vastly accelerated Indigenous dependency and a thoughtcrime regime in all the places where genuine “reconciliation” between this country’s First Nations and the Canadian state might have been.

Those efforts, which began in earnest in the late 1990s, came to an end on the last weekend in May, 2021, with worldwide headlines like this one: Canada: remains of 215 children found at Indigenous residential school site. That’s when the Canadian flag was lowered to half mast on Parliament Hill and on all federal buildings across the country.

The flags stayed at half mast until November, even though nothing of the kind was found in Kamloops. But once that foundational lie was told the Trudeau government found it necessary to hide its tracks by expanding and elaborating upon its gruesome “narrative,” with the ready assistance of lazy and stupid journalism.

All those churches were burned to the ground, with no national inquiry into what the hell that was all about, and we’re supposed to be shocked at the paroxysms of antisemitic violence across Canada that erupted after the Hamas pogrom of October 7 last year. And now Khaistanis are attacking Hindu temples from Brampton to Surrey.

The path Trudeau’s Liberals chose in May, 2021 led inevitably to Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray’s finding that Canada, Israel, the United States and Australia form a complex of irredeemably illegitimate settler states: the fountainhead of capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, genocide, misogyny, racism, and heteronormativity, and of course, Zionism.

These are the wicked branches from the tree with its roots of all evil: settler colonialism. It explains everything. It’s a totalizing ideology, a totalitarian ideology, and Murray’s remedies would require Canada to submit itself to the International Court of Justice for prosecution on charges of crimes against humanity.

Murray proposes to further establish a “Commission of Investigation into Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children and Unmarked Burials” with a 20-year mandate to pound this ideology into every facet of public life in Canada, or whatever would be left of Canada by 2044.

You’d have to think that establishing Canada's very own UNRWA counts as “progress” in order to entertain the notion that anything about this is genuinely “progressive.” It isn’t. It would mean that actual “truth and reconciliation” would recede further into the vanishing distance, just for starters.

Being a journalist, I was struck, as you might imagine, by this: “Media organizations must make reparations for their role in supporting settler colonialism and by denying and limiting truths about the Indian Residential School System.” This would run in tandem with an amended Criminal Code, in the same section as the prohibition on Holocaust Denial, to prosecute any dissent from the setter-colonialism ideology’s dogma about residential schools as genocide.

I’m not making any of this up.

A lot more later.

We’re a front-page laughing stock in India again.

PM slams Canada Hindu temple attack, cowardly attempt to intimidate diplomats. MEA to Canada on Brampton temple attack: 'Prosecute those involved in violence.' What led to the Khalistani attack on Canada's Hindu temple? Lots of that sort of thing. Meanwhile:

I begin to feel that there is a small grain of truth in the reports that in addition to Canadian political apparatus, Khalistanis have effectively infiltrated into our law enforcement agencies.

That was the thing about Liberal MP Charya Andra’s tweet on Sunday, and since we were just on the subject of speech-policing, here’s how it earned New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh a starring role in this week’’s media-cycle operetta:

Singh shuts down Liberal MP for suggesting Sikh separatists have ‘ infiltrated’ Canadian agencies, from Global News, and from the Toronto Star: A Liberal MP’s claim that pro-Khalistan “extremists” may have infiltrated Canadian politics and law enforcement agencies parrots the lines of an Indian government accused of threatening and killing Canadians, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday.

Awkwardly for Singh, Arya’s “small grain of truth” was revealed on Monday, when Peel Regional Police police sergeant Harinder Sohi was suspended for having been exposed as one of the “protestors” carrying Khalistani flags who stormed the grounds of Brampton’s Hindu Sabha Mandir temple on Sunday, bashing Hindus with sticks.

Sergeant Sohi has been something of a fixture among the “Death to India” activists in the Greater Toronto Area, so I’m pleased to see he’s been outed. If you think the Peel Regional Police have been unaware of this, you’re dreaming. And it’s not as though Khalistanis are an unwelcome presence around RCMP recruitment drives, either.

That’s the thing about this whole story. If you don’t conform to the Trudeau-Singh “narrative,” you’re accused of “parroting” a pro-Modi “narrative.” I noticed this a couple of weeks ago in the National Post, in this bit:

The whole story is being put to the purpose of a long-standing popularity contest between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau, and merely noticing Canada’s unclean hands in the contest is to risk coming to the attention of the authorities at Global Affairs’ foreign-interference watchdog, the Rapid Response Mechanism.

For more background than you’ll ever need: Politics and The Punjabi Gangland Wars

Introductory dispatches: Why I know where the bodies are buried.

Part 1: Is India interfering in Canada’s affairs or is it the other way round?

Part 2: Did Ottawa Sabotage Modi's Peace Talks?

Part 3: Conspiracy Theories, From Inside The House.

More recently: The worst of all possible worlds; Defiling the memory of dead Canadians; The worst mass murder in Canadian history and Trudeau Vs. Modi in the Punjabi Gang Wars (I hope you're sitting down).

There’s so much that has been misreported and has gone unreported over the past few days it’s hard to know where to start. But here’s the story everybody’s missing, and I’ll have more on this, too, once the smoke from the U.S. presidential election clears:

Canada’s Hindus have had quite enough of Khalistani thuggery, clearly. Just look at the disturbances Brampton. They’re done with it. You can call these events “pro-India” riots if that suits your “narrative,” but Canada’s Hindus have had it. It’s not just Brampton. It’s the same story in Surrey, B.C., where three people were arrested in a clash after the Khalistanis showed up outside the Lakshmi Narayan Mandir Hindu temple in Surrey.

The Hindu leadership there isn’t happy with the police, either: “The responsibility lies with the government and authorities to prevent this from escalating further,” the temple wrote. “We also call for the suspension, investigation, and prosecution of the police officers involved in unjustified violence against temple devotees.”

Canada’s mainline Sikhs, too, have had it with the “Sikhs for Justice” goondas. Last week the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Ross Street Gurudwara won a court order obliging police to patrol a buffer zone around the temple to keep Khalistanis from preventing Sikh elders from meeting with Indian consular offices to secure their Indian pensions.

I can’t report much more than this for now but:

Over the weekend a gathering of about 250 people representing a couple of dozen Hindu and Sikh organizations met together in Metro Vancouver to affirm their inter-communal solidarity, to stand united against Khalistani “abuse and intimidation,” and “to give them a smashing reply.” They’re decidedly displeased with Trudeau and Singh as well, let me tell you.

It’s about time. This whole story is about to get very interesting, and the “narrative” we’ve all become used to is going to take a beating.

More later.