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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Hahaha wait. Let me get this straight: Trudeau should have dealt with information that implicated India’s government in the murder of someone in June 2023… before his trip in 2019, and before India had even declared Hardeep a “terrorist”?

Perfect. No notes.

Trudeau knew about India’s interference in Canada before his 2019 trip. But chose not to act on it.

Regarding CSIS’s plan to take down India’s clandestine networks, NSICOP says at a May 2017 meeting, CSIS director David Vigneault met with Trudeau’s then national security advisor, Daniel Jean, and the deputy minister for Public Safety, and the Global Affairs director of counter-terrorism, crime and intelligence.

In the meeting, Jean raised questions about whether Trudeau administration plans to change the CSIS Act, would impact CSIS’s use of threat reduction operations, the NSICOP report says.

And so, the report says: “In a later briefing note to the Prime Minister on the Threat Reduction Measure, the national security and intelligence advisor stated, ‘In view of the significant political sensitivity, the Privy Council Office advised CSIS to be mindful of this context and take a limited approach to briefings and interviews.”

This briefing note for Trudeau, from Jean, added that “CSIS had developed a more ambitious [plan to disrupt Indian intelligence networks] but scaled down its intervention on advice from Privy Council Office and Public Safety.”

As a result of other departments telling CSIS to stand down, NSICOP says that CSIS “met with a smaller number of individuals from Mr. Jain’s network, but did not, as originally planned, engage elected officials or journalists.”

Perhaps more shockingly — in light of CSIS’s original plans to disrupt the growing Indian intelligence networks targeting Sikh communities in Vancouver — after these meetings in Ottawa, CSIS did nothing to target the Vancouver diplomat, “Mr. Singh or his network.”

In addition, in CSIS’s original threat reduction plan, Global Affairs Canada “had committed to inform senior Indian diplomats in Canada of Mr. Singh’s activities,” NSICOP says.

But later, for political reasons, Global Affairs was mute on CSIS’s concerns in Vancouver.

“For its part, Global Affairs did not raise Mr. Singh’s activities to senior Indian diplomats,” the NSICOP document says, “because it had concerns that preparations for the Prime Minister’s trip to India were reaching a critical point and may be negatively affected by such an intervention.”

In the aftermath, the alleged Indian intelligence networks interfering in Vancouver’s diaspora were untouched.

Citing an October 2017 internal CSIS briefing note, NSICOP’s report says “CSIS noted that Mr. Singh ‘continues his [foreign interference] activities unabated.’”

Had Trudeau dealt with this when he found out, India might not have been able to use their “network” to have this man killed.