It is said there are between a 1.5 and two million Canadians of Indian extraction and fearfully, as many as half are inclined to support Sikh independence on the subcontinent. It is not a problem Canada needs but it will never perplex a country like China. They will curry favour with the Indians without such silly irritants Now, with the prime minister due home from a somewhat mixed trip to India, Global News is reporting that Sikh separatists in Canada, and in the Liberal Party, are lauding Mr. Trudeau. “I condemn in the strongest terms the Government of India’s cold shoulder behavior during reception of PM [Trudeau],” pro-Khalistan activist Sukhminder Singh Hansra, president of one of the Canadian chapters of Punjab-based political party Shiromani Akali Dal, said in a statement. “Once again, [Trudeau] and his team displayed the higher standard of democracy as they put the interest of people ahead of their own by meeting with the head of Punjab state, the arrogant Capt. Amarinder Singh,” the statement read.
LEADER FOREVER?
Speaking of China, the news seems quite ominous. The Chinese Communist Party has proposed scrapping term limits for the country’s president. That’s what was reported by the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023. Leader forever it seems. It is not a good omen for China nor democracy. The party’s Central Committee proposed to remove from the constitution the expression that China’s president and vice-president “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms,” the Xinhua News Agency said. “Xi Jinping has finally achieved his ultimate goal when he first embarked on Chinese politics — that is to be the Mao Zedong of the 21st century,” said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, referring to the founder of communist China. What would Deng Xiaoping say?
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