Canadian police again warn a prominent Canadian Sikh leader that his life is in danger from Indian state-sponsored killers while Prime Minister Mark Carney goes kissing India’s ass to woo trade deals while gambling with Canadian Sikhs’ lives. Canadian Sikh activist and leader Moninder Singh says he’s been warned by police about a “credible threat” to his life and the lives of his family. Singh suspects India’s government is behind the threat, and why he’s upset about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s upcoming trade mission in India after Canada already announced solid proof that Indian agents backed the killing of Surrey Gurdwara president Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Global News reported that Singh, who heads the Sikh Federation of Canada, said a member of the Vancouver Police Department delivered the caution on Sunday.

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff With News Files

SURREY – Canadian police again warn a prominent Canadian Sikh leader that his life is in danger from Indian state-sponsored killers while Prime Minister Mark Carney goes kissing India’s ass to woo trade deals while gambling with Canadian Sikhs’ lives.

Canadian Sikh activist and leader Moninder Singh says he’s been warned by police about a “credible threat” to his life and the lives of his family. Singh suspects India’s government is behind the threat, and why he’s upset about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s upcoming trade mission in India after Canada already announced solid proof that Indian agents backed the killing of Surrey Gurdwara president Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Global News reported that Singh, who heads the Sikh Federation of Canada, said a member of the Vancouver Police Department delivered the caution on Sunday.

The tip about the threat came from a confidential informant, the officer told Singh, whose wife and children were also deemed to be at risk.

The Sikh activist, who lives in Surrey, B.C., shared an audio recording of the police visit, as well as a photo of the officer’s business card, with Global News.

β€œFrom time to time, the VPD conducts what is called a β€˜Duty to Warn’ when we receive information regarding a threat to someone,” a police spokesperson said.

 β€œI can’t comment on if any β€˜Duty to Warn’ incidents happened over the weekend as there would be an ongoing criminal investigation associated.”

Police did not share any further details but Singh believes it is the latest attempt by the government of India to silence its Canadian opponents.

in 2022, Singh and murdered fellow activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar were the first to receive a duty to warn notice. Nijjar was gunned down the following year by the Indian government.

Since then, police have warned Singh and other Sikh leaders across Canada periodically about new threats against them but last weekend’s was the first to include his family.

Since he is not a business person like those typically preyed upon by India’s extortion gangs, he suspects he is being targeted because of his activism.

Singh is an outspoken critic of human rights in India, and an advocate of the Khalistan movement that supports independence for India’s Sikh-majority Punjab.

Global News reported that on the eve of Carney’s official visit to Mumbai and New Delhi, a senior official said the government believed India was no longer plotting attacks on Canadians.

The official’s comments, at a press background briefing, were the first to suggest India had halted the clandestine operations that Canada has linked to a murder and other violence.

β€œWe have a very robust diplomatic engagement, including between national security advisers, and I think we can say we’re confident that that activity is not continuing or we would not be having this type of discussion,” he said.

Pressed by reporters to clarify the comment, the official declined to elaborate, but added, β€œI really don’t think we’d be taking this trip if we thought these kind of activities would continue.”

The official spoke on the condition he would not be identified.

Canadian national security agencies believe India began a campaign in 2022 to kill activists in North America who support Khalistan, an independent state in the Sikh-majority Punjab.

Among those allegedly targeted was Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down in June 2023 as he was leaving the Surrey, B.C., temple where he served as president.

Recently, Indian government agent Nikhil Gupta trying to hire killers to kill Khalistan leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannu pleaded guilty and was jailed.

The RCMP believes the Indian government tapped gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi to arrange the murder. An Indian intelligence officer was also implicated in a plot to kill another Canadian in the U.S.

More than a dozen other Canadians were warned by police that their lives were at risk, and the RCMP similarly linked those plots to the government of India.

As the RCMP investigations progressed, Commissioner Mike Duheme announced that India’s government was behind a broad array of violence, often targeting pro-Khalistan activists.

Canada subsequently expelled six Indian diplomats. But since taking office, Carney has restored, and deepened, ties with India, which he is courting for a trade deal to offset a tariff-obsessed White House.

At the same time, the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which India has allegedly cooperated with to target political opponents in Canada, has been blamed for the extortion crisis in cities with large South Asian populations.

But at a briefing on Wednesday in advance of Carney’s arrival in India on Feb. 27, the senior government official seemed to suggest that New Delhi’s targeting of Canadians had stopped.

It was unclear whether the official who spoke about Carney’s visit had access to the intelligence to support his statements, which come as Ottawa is seeking to expand exports to India.

The World Sikh Organization of Canada called his view β€œutterly false.”

β€œIt does not align with what Sikh Canadians are experiencing on the ground and what we are seeing firsthand,” said WSO President Danish Singh.

Only last weekend, Vancouver police warned Canadian Sikh activist Moninder Singh about an imminent threat to himself, his wife and their children. It is the fourth such warning he has received since 2022.

β€œThe WSO is aware of incidents in the past six months of individuals being surveilled, harassed and intimidated by agents of the government of India,” the national Sikh group said in the statement.

 β€œThe Carney government has failed to hold India accountable or to create any meaningful safeguards to ensure that Sikh Canadians are protected from foreign interference and transnational repression.”

β€œDeclaring the problem resolved does not make it so.”

The senior official would not answer when asked when India had seemingly stopped its transnational repression and foreign interference campaign in Canada, reported Global News.

The RCMP has previously linked such threats to the Indian government, and Singh believes that is also the case for this latest caution from police.

β€œIndia uses criminal syndicates, gangs in Canada, to carry out their dirty work for them,” he said. β€œIndia taps them and then they go out and carry these political assassinations out.”

 β€œSo I feel like the reason why they’re targeting me, for my political expression, my support for a Sikh homeland, Khalistan, or unveiling India’s horrible human rights record, I think it comes back to India.”

Much as been reported with evidence thatIndian diplomats and agents were engaging in β€œclandestine activities” such as collecting information on members of Canada’s South Asian, largely Sikh community.

β€œThis information is shared with senior levels of the Indian government, who then direct the commission of serious criminal activities against Indo-Canadians through the kinetic use of Lawrence Bishnoi’s organized crime network,” National Security Advisor Nathalie Drouin testified.

 β€œBishnoi is currently in jail in India, and he is able to order these actions through his gang, which has extensive criminal networks in India and internationally,” she said, reported Global News.

Courtesy Global News