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TONIGHT: The show begins in Ottawa and Delhi as Canada and India trade diplomatic gestures of disdain. The show travels to NYC shelters to puzzle the mandates from City Hall. From British Columbia to London and Washington and Canberra in search of eviden

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Ottawa and Delhi as Canada and India trade diplomatic gestures of disdain. The show travels to NYC shelters to puzzle the mandates from City Hall. From British Columbia to London and Washington and Canberra in search of evidence of the PM remarks. Attention to the failed Ukraine counter offensive. And to the ceasefire in Nagorni Karabakh. A last wave to WesterCiv at Stanford.
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0:00.0

Good evening. On the show tonight, a deal of attention to the allegation made by Prime

0:06.3

Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, containing the words credible allegations linking India

0:16.2

with the murder, the Ganglands style murder, of a plumber in British Columbia who was also

0:23.5

identified as a Sikh and a man who was sympathetic to the separatist nation of Calistan in India.

0:32.6

He is, however, her was, a Canadian citizen named Najir. The Prime Minister in Parliament

0:39.6

surprising everyone announced that there were credible allegations linking India to

0:46.2

this murder that took place in the middle of June several months before. Since then, there

0:52.1

has been much brouhaha in India, in Canada, and especially from the allies of Canada and India,

0:59.0

I'm cheaply thinking of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. But no advancement

1:05.3

in the credible allegations remarked. No evidence. The leader of the opposition and the Parliament

1:12.4

in Canada and Ottawa, Pierre Pulevra, rose, I'm told by Conrad Black, to say that he's looking

1:20.8

to learn more. The other voices are all cautious. If there is evidence, it needs to be aired,

1:29.8

needs to be brought to the attention of the courts, needs to be pursued. There have been no arrests.

1:36.0

This is a surprise to everyone, although the news reporting suggests that Mr. Trudeau has been

1:41.4

sharing this information or some part of this information with other leaders, especially during

1:48.1

the G20 he attended, in Delhi, where Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, was the host.

1:55.0

Much attention to this, I speak to Tunku Verderajan, of the Wall Street Journal who writes about it,

2:00.6

Conrad Black of the National Post, who speaks very carefully, but at the same time mentions that

2:07.6

Pierre Pulevra, the leader of the Conservatives, the opposition, wants to see more information.

2:14.0

Everyone does. Charles Burton of the MacDonald Lorry Institute makes the case that Mr. Trudeau is

2:21.0

under pressure from his own coalition, participating as the new Democratic Party led by a man named

2:28.2

Singh, who is sympathetic to the Sikh thinking that a separate nation, there are many Sikhs in

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