And The Mask Comes off..
Writing by shinda on Friday, 23 of February , 2007
I’ve always been a life long liberal, mind you I’ve only been able to vote in the last 3 federal elections, none the less have always committed that vote to the the reds. The conservatives were always seen as the bad guys, the racists the ones who would no quicker put a ban on the dastar, lock away our kirpans and then laugh all the way home. and the NDP just resonates with irresponsible government spending. All the same this time around the blue was looking good. Harper was making all the right moves, and saying all the things I wanted to hear. He seemed like a prime minster who knew the value of a dollar, and for everything else it was worth seemed to be a decent good guy, regardless of how he came across. Yet it only took one question period, to burn that image down, for him to melt away the fisad of a hero and reveal his true colours.
Those of you who follow the news know what I’m talking about, with Harper coming out and insinuating that Navdeep Bains has terrorist ties and that the Liberal party is trying to cover up and protect him by rejecting provisions in the latest of bills. His source for such allegations is non other then everyones favourite journalist turned fairy tale author Kim Bolan and her tabloid newspaper the Vancouver Sun.
This shit bothers me on so many levels that it’s just ridiculous, and I would go as far to call this the nail in the coffin for the Conservative party and their bid to run parliament. To what end will this PM go to not only save his own skin but to make a point? The point alone shows the fact that the PM has no legs to stand on resorting to name calling and finger pointing. It’s as if we’re back in grade school when you’re having a discussion proved to be a dumb ass, so you resort to making yo momma jokes in the hopes that those around you will stop looking at the facts and that the discussion will end prematurely.
When a 3rd grader does it, it’s understandable but what to make of it when the PM of what is supposed to be a developed nation does it? Harper’s juvenile behavior has proven once again that the Conservatives that were despised in the past are the same conservatives in power today. Why any self respecting Sikh, or human being for that matter would even consider running or even supporting them after all that has been done is beyond me, but I’m sure Sam Hundal will have an answer.
Now for all intents and purposes I could continue this rant and tirade on how idiotic the Prime Minister of Canada really is. That with the RCMP, and CSIS at his disposal the PM instead chooses to use the The Vancouver Sun as his source to drop allegations with. That the provisions and bill in question have little and nothing to do with the Air India Bombing’s investigation, yet he continues to play the same trump card over and over again belittling the intelligence of Canadians everywhere. Or that even after the fact, knowing full well that he crossed the line, refuses to retract or even issue an apology. But screw it, I’d rather just make sure that he doesn’t stay in power by continuing to vote red.
Anyways for those wanting to read up and play catch up with whats going on I’ve included the video of the Question Answer period where Harper makes his allegations and a copy of the Vancover Sun article in question below.
Q & A on the 21st.
(for more reaction from Parliment check out MP Garth Turner’s site)
The Vancover Sun article:
Liberal MP’s in-law interviewed in Air India case
Ontario Liberal is son-in-law of former spokesman for Babbar Khalsa Panthak
Kim Bolan
Vancouver Sun
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
A young Liberal MP who delivered Stephane Dion 250 leadership votes is the son-in-law of a man police have interviewed in connection with the Air India bombing case.
Navdeep Singh Bains, MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, shot on to the national stage after the December 2006 convention in which he delivered huge support to Gerard Kennedy and later to Dion, who won the Liberal leadership by 437 votes.
The Vancouver Sun has learned that Bains’s father-in-law, Darshan Singh Saini, is on the RCMP’s potential list of witnesses at investigative hearings designed to advance the Air India criminal probe.
But the ability to hold those hearings will be lost March 1 if parts of the Anti-Terrorism Act expire as expected, after the Liberals recently withdrew support for extending the provision being used to hold them.
Saini, former Ontario spokesman for the terrorist Babbar Khalsa Panthak, said in an interview that if he is called to the investigative hearing, he will testify.
“If they call me, I will see. I don’t know about that,” he said. “It is not that I hide anything. If something comes up again, that is that.”
And he said his MP son-in-law’s political positions have nothing to do with him.
“I can only speak for me. I cannot speak for my son-in-law,” Saini said from Toronto.
Saini is listed as an alternative leadership delegate for Kennedy, according to documents obtained by The Sun. But he said he did not attend the convention because of medical issues.
Kennedy said Tuesday he has met Saini, but was unaware of his link to political events in the Sikh community in the 1980s.
“I had not been aware of it. And it certainly never came up within the course of any of the interactions I had,” Kennedy said. “I have never had the opportunity to discuss it with him [Saini.]”
Nor has he discussed the issue with Bains, he said.
Saini was a controversial figure in the 1980s. He helped a young man named Harkirat Singh Bagga by giving him a place to stay for several weeks in 1988. Bagga left Saini’s Ontario home that summer, travelled to B.C. and critically wounded newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer in the first attempt on Hayer’s life. Hayer, who had offered to be a witness in the Air India case, was assassinated a decade later.
Court documents released during the Air India trial say Saini told the RCMP he had met Bagga in Pakistan in November 1987, along with Ajaib Singh Bagri, a Babbar Khalsa leader acquitted in the Air India bombing.
Bagri at one time was charged in the 1988 plot to kill Hayer and Saini was expected to be called as a witness, according to Air India trial documents, but the charge was later stayed.
Hayer’s son Dave, who is a Liberal MLA in B.C., said he had no idea that Bains was related to Saini.
“I was really shocked to learn that a member of Parliament is closely related to someone who was living with the person who came to shoot my father,” Dave Hayer said.
The RCMP has been preparing since 2003 to hold investigative hearings into the Air India bombing to compel people believed to have knowledge of events at that time to testify before a judge.
Bains, who is just 29, confirmed last week his relationship with Saini. He did not call back Tuesday to answer questions about the implications of Saini’s possible involvement in investigative hearings.
He said earlier that he makes all his decisions as an MP based on what is best for Canadians.
He said he had not realized the impact of the change in the Anti-Terrorism Act on the Air India probe.
“It is very concerning,” Bains said. “There is a debate that is taking place and it will continue to take place. There is no doubt about that. We will raise it among ourselves.”
His family also has connections with the World Sikh Organization, another Sikh separatist group that made an address at the resumption of the Air India inquiry in Ottawa Monday.
Saini said he is no longer involved in the Khalistan movement.
“I am not very much into politics any more,” he said. “My views are drastically different now.”
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Random Taksali from 
Made Friday, 23 of February , 2007 at 11:05 am
SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME
major shame
what about tara singh hayer’s SON who’s now throwing allegations against navdeep singh bains, his dad was the guy who got the khalistan movement started in bc.. Its not our fault he turned out to be another longowal.. What right does tara hayer’s son have to blame Navdeep Singh’s saura? Bloody hypocrite.. Apne turning against Apne.. What al oad of BS .. Le ke rahange Khalistan no matter how stupid these western governments are
The Rock says that Ralph Goodale looked to be the hardest fighting MP in that whole clip.
was it just me, or did it look like Ralphy was gonna skip across the isle and pound his foot up Mr. Harper’s @ss? Gotta say I have a brand new respect for Mr. Goodale. He actually got up there and talked like he GAVE A SH*T.
Shinda, you’re spot on with the analysis though. I don’t know how ANY Sikh could EVER vote for any other party other than Liberal. Harper just showed how stupid and ignorant he is. Not just for saying all that smack about Navdeep, but for actually quoting Kim Bolan!!
That lady spews more **** outta her mouth than she does outta her @ss.
I intend on staying tuned for further developments…
“Prime minister’s vicious insinuation against a Liberal MP, and the sustained outrage of the opposition in response. The explosive exchange begins at 3:00 from opening. Related opposition rebuttals begin at about 12:30 and continue for several minutes. At 17:30, Ralph Goodale makes a powerful interjection on behalf of the Liberal opposition. At about 24:00 Stéphane Dion calls for the prime minister to apologize, and the prime minister refuses.”
yeahhh from
Made Saturday, 24 of February , 2007 at 12:06 am
unaccetable… harper needs to G-O.. like fast.. that fat S.O.B is clearly trying to defame sikhs and something has to be done like now
Deep Singh from
Made Saturday, 24 of February , 2007 at 1:41 am
shame shame shame!!! I love Canadian politics. Gurbax should have got up in there and started yelling in Punjabi, not like you can understand what anyone else was saying.
The problem with these people is they see “Sikh separatist activity” as terrorist activity. Even if BK wasn’t involved, they’d still think we’re terrorists. They don’t see the need for Khalistan and how the desire for Khalistan grew out of thousands of lives lost and countless blood shed, generations lost, history lost, virsa lost, pride lost… purity lost and dharam lost… innocence lost, everything was lost because of the oppression of Sikhs…We’re even losing our ‘homeland’ Punjab to theives that are trying to rip our culture & heritage from us.
In the blog posted above thats all obvious.. The guy talks about sikh seperatist activity like it’s being led by the taliban… They don’t understand it’s a revolution for justice, and don’t realize how over 250,000 people killed in 1984-1994 pogroms is also considered ‘terrorist activity’ even if it’s been done by the idiot Indian government… They don’t realize that they’re placing higher importance on the 324 people killed in 1985 (Air Canada) than our entire generations lost…
These people need to understand our struggle for justice & stop labelling us as terrorists just cause we picked up guns when nothing else worked & our own people were being raped by the government we called our own……
Prabhu Singh from 
Made Saturday, 24 of February , 2007 at 4:16 pm
The first Sikh blog I ever saw (http://www.japnaamsingh.com/) is all about conservative Canadian politics. It looks a lot like what’s labelled ‘conservative’ politics in the US as well. It’s like the party of the ‘good ole boys.’
Kim Bolan writes trash, she’s actually elevating the Sikhs because she is taking the karmic burden of everybody she slanders. Unfortunately, the issue of Khalistan brings up intense emotions and often times people act out of anger. What the Indian government has done makes my blood boil, but we will never have any credibility if we act from anger. We need to keep in check these Sikhs who are giving Kim Bolan fodder for her articles. Guru Gobind Singh had every reason to be angry and to declare Khalistan, but he wasn’t angry and he never drew poitical boundaries, he devoted his whole life to the service of humanity. We should be known for our service rather than all this other stuff that gets media attention.
singh from
Made Saturday, 24 of February , 2007 at 7:02 pm
Prabhu Singh I see where you’re coming from, but there are Sikhs all around the world doing service for humanity. People like Kim Bolan don’t want to focus on them! Western media doesn’t focus on all the Sikh youth that are doing blood drives, camps for the youth, homeless food drives, fighting against gang violence, volunteering in different places, helping out in areas where natural disasters happen (united sikhs), gathering money for widows and victims of oppression, etc etc etc. They don’t even want to ’showcase’ basic Sikh principles of equality, dasvand, etc. If they did, the public would change their minds about Sikhi. I guarantee more people would convert even, realizing the greatness of Sikhi.
But western media and people like Kimmy don’t want to focus on our positives. We’re just another minority group to be shunned and hated on. Whats the difference between people like Kimmy & the white people a hundred years ago telling us “go back home u hindus” ?
Sikhs are doing service to humanity but people like Kim Bolan just want to focus on things that will make us look bad
Very true Singh, look at the Blood Donation campaign that has been running for years. The Sikh Nation had the highest number of donors at the Surrey Clinic yet when you looked in the newspapers, hardly any mention of positive accomplishments of Sikhs, instead…Indo-canadian gang killed, air india trial pursues, and other propaganda. The western media is getting very frustrating, especially with the likes of bolan.
Well im glad harper’s true colors finally showed. hopefully this knocks enough sense into people that they do not vote the conservative party back into government.
Balraj from
Made Sunday, 25 of February , 2007 at 10:21 pm
I think we need to step back and take a look at this situation. There is a possible election taking place in the very near future, May or June, and an important issue has arised in the form of terrorism, which has been a major issue ever since 9/11. Now, Mr. Harper looked for an opening to discredit the Liberals, and it came with the publishing of Ms. Bolan’s article linking Darshan Singh Siani to Navdeep Singh Bains. This tatic by Mr. Harper was to show that the Liberals are two-faced, as the Liberals are the ones that tabled the Bill in question back in 2001/2002 and now they are trying to make certain provisions expire as they had 5 year limits. Now i’ve been a Liberal for my whole life, and my views and beliefs are extremely liberal, I have never been a fan of the Conservatives, whether or not they did something which I have agreed with or not, but I do not think that Mr. Harper singled out Navdeep Singh Bains just because he was a Sikh, which is what I was getting from some of the replies post relating to this specific blog. I think he would have taken that cheap shot at any of the opposition MP’s if they were named in article like Ms. Bolan’s. Religion had nothing to do with it, it’s just an attempt to show weakness on the Liberal end. If you think the Liberals would have not done the same thing if the tables were turned then your just being ignorant.
Why is it we are always crying foul whenever some says something about Sikhs, but never when its about other people from different backgrounds? Isn’t Sikhism about justice and equality for all, regardless of religion?
t from
Made Monday, 26 of February , 2007 at 1:59 am
the liberals are right in opposing this bill. dion is a smart person, hes a scholar, he knows how a true democracy should run, and that the judiciary must be kept seperate from the police and the government. mixing them up will make canada more like india, and all these fake cases and false convictions going thru
This is a two folded argument all the same;
1) Kim Bolan reporting what she reported.
2) PM citing Kim Bolan as her source.
Balraj, you’re right in that this is just politics, but thats whats at the heart of all this, dirty politics. The PM in his wording and presentation smeared Navdeep Bains and the liberal party as terrorists, for no reason at all. It would be just as bad as if the Conservatives stated at the time of the whole Amendment to the Marriage act that the NDP had alterior motives behind there decision and where only voting for the bill to support there own MP’s such as Bill Siksay and others, doing so however would never have been tolerated either since one thats just not politically correct and secondly it crosses the line and almost becomes a form of name calling.
sundeep singh from
Made Monday, 26 of February , 2007 at 10:30 pm
i agree its just politics- - but - - The difference here is that his comments slandered an oft slandered community. so it wasn’t just slander of a politician, which is business as usual, but a community that gets its reputation hit a lot more often than it should. and it wasn’t with a small thing, but a really huge thing.
