TORONTO – It is a self-glorifying, quasi-condescending observation towards “peoples” who do not appear to share the same “Olympian standards of deference” to the law that we claim for ourselves. As I watched some video reproductions of Sikh Vaisakhi parades in Vancouver last week, I kept thinking of a Hero in Canadian Journalism – Tara Hayer – who risked Limb and then Life to expose the truth so that we could say Canada is a “rule of law country”.
TORONTO – The Indian minister gets straight to the point. And after saying that Canada “gives legitimacy to extremists in the name of freedom of speech”, he returns to harshly criticize the federal government led by Justin Trudeau, in some passages of a long interview published today in The Economic Times. (more…)