That escalated quickly: India suspends visa services in Canada
“Important notice from Indian Mission: Due to operational reasons, with effect from 21 Sept. Indian visa services have been suspended [until] further notice,” the BLS Indian Visa Application Center in Canada said in a statement.
It gave no further details. BLS is the agency that processes visa requests for India, including for entry, tourist, student and employment visas. The centre has physical locations in cities such as Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver.
In 2021, 80,000 Canadian tourists visited India, making them the fourth-largest group, according to India’s Bureau of Immigration. Canada is an attractive destination for Indians, especially students. In 2022, nearly 300,000 Indians were pursuing higher education in Canada.
India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi cited unspecified security threats “being faced by our high commission and consulates in Canada.”
“This has disrupted their normal functioning,” said Bagchi. “Accordingly our high commission and consulates are temporarily unable to process visa applications
Does Trudeau’s Khalistani cohort have anything to say?
For Trudeau its a two-for. Gets a thumbs up from the junior member of his coalition government. Gets rid of Indian students to ease his created housing shortage.
He gets more than that: he’s the center of attention, this time not only in Canada but internationally + he scores points with gullibles pretending to be the brave defender of Canada against the evil interfering states.
Who cares if he’s lying? PP and others asking for proof? he will say that proof is too sensitive to show, security issues etc – we mere mortals can’t handle the truth.
I certainly agree with your first sentence.
As to your second point, surprisingly and for what little it might be worth, the Globe & Mail supports PP on this and even debunks the argument that the information is too sensitive to show Canadians:
“But what of the national security imperative to protect sources and methods? Those concerns have been raised as a shield, time and again, in the debate over China’s attempt to meddle in Canada’s elections. They remain, for the most part, a self-serving justification for officials to retain control over information that belongs in the public sphere.
Some particulars of intelligence-gathering techniques may need to be held back from public view. Everything else must be brought to light, and not just because Canadians deserve clarity. Realpolitik will be served as well.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-ottawa-owes-canadians-the-full-truth-on-the-killing-of-hardeep-singh/
There’s always a “good reason” to lie and conceal on intelligence. For one thing, it conceals how STUPID they are.
Twice a week meetings with the RCMP and they STILL managed to whack this guy? That’s beyond stupid.
Oh no, I hope his behavior doesn’t effect all those call centers in India that serve Canadian companies? I mean who’s going to work as slave labor if they can’t out source to India?
Good one!
Nova Scotians?
Trudeau might get more votes if he blocks Indian Call centers from using the phone system in Canada
J.D.: I certainly hope he doesn’t! I will miss speaking to a guy in Calcutta about my computer problem and trying to figure out just WTF he is saying!
No need to outsource, they are all coming over here.
80,000 Canadian tourists visited India,…
Tell me the majority are Canadians going back home to see Ma and Pa.
I don’t think so. Ma, Pa, Grandma and Grandpa are all here, living with them in their three-bedroom homes.
Family reunification, dontcha know?
True. Two hundred plus countries in the world… India just doesn’t make it on my “Must visit” list.
“Free Health Care” is a driving motivation for Ma, Pa, Grandma and Grandpa as well.
“Canada….Come For the Free Shit!
Stay For the Genocide of Your Family…”
And just like that, nobody is paying any attention to China.
Amazing how fast you can turn a whole herd of sheep, eh?
It appears that Trudeau only levelled the accusation in the House of Commons, there doesn’t seem to be any press releases on Canada’s official website, and there isn’t a parade of ministers, including the public safety minister, repeating the claims to everyone that will listen…
odd that
Yes,what is the elephant in the room that they want don’t want us to notice? Seems to me this may well be a bait and switch operation.
“Seems to me this may well be a bait and switch operation.”
Quite possible, although the lack of support by western allies here lends itself to a simple hissy fit by little potato for the indignity he felt during the G20 in India.
He really is that narcissistic and stupid.
‘We’ve always been at war with South Asia.’
‘We’ve always been at war with South Asia.’
That is a matter of perspective.
Regardless, the simple reality is that western nations have left their borders Wide Open for far to long to ever believe we can go to war with any sizable nation and come out unscathed.
It would take an unrealistic monumental effort by unified western populations over generations to put that genie back in the bottle. In other words – brace for impact.
Yes, too bad the people who went over to China, addicted a sizable portion of the population to opium, then lorded over the same population for the next one hundred and fifty years didn’t have a F Around and Find Out graph, perhaps the west could have avoided the mess they’re in.
@Hagar
Agree 100%.
The sad part is that it wasn’t exactly us, those were the sins of the British Empire who we attempt to emulate so well today. The British also taught the Chinese a thing or two and we now pay the price in Chinese supplied Fentanyl across those same wide open borders.
Doesn’t India have a slightly greater population than Kanada????
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Mining the ethnic vote eventually creates enemies as identity politics is corrosive (group rights anyone?). Perhaps India will deliver us some kinetic salvation where the rest of us have only dreamt.
Singh -pick a lane.
Are you Canadian or not?
I don’t understand why we import peoples’ whose hearts clearly still belong elsewhere.
Diversity is our strength ….how’s that working out for us?
I’m starting to undertake a “follow the money” project, following the money of pro-Khalistan individuals and groups in Canada. First finding: there are 19 “gurdwaras” (places of Sikh worship) listed as Sikh religious charities with the CRA. A quick glance shows that the balance sheets — assets/liabilities and revenue/expenditures — are a travesty of reporting, full of missing data everywhere and with some data reported as millions in some places and dollers/cents in other places, for a given gurdwara.
I’ll report further findings in future “readers tips”threads.
One would think that somebody in Ottawa would have caught on to this. DM, retired, PhD in public finance economics.
The CRA website is largely useless when it comes to looking at what charities actually do… it would be nice if we could get them to fill out a form 990 as that’s more complete, and gives a somewhat better idea of where the money goes
If the Little Potato.had any gonads he’d stand on the balcony of the Taj Mahala and proclaim ‘Viva le khalistan libre’! But no, like his purported father, he’d rather act symbolically and let others Pay the price
India suspends visa services in Canada
Now if they’d only suspend those endless duct cleaning calls.
“Now if they’d only suspend those endless duct cleaning calls.”
Just say “I live in Pickle Lake, what time should I expect you?”…………..
Oh there’s lots of outsourced support services from Canada to India, starting with:
Banks
Telecom
Engineering related drawings
Hello, I don’t want to chat with a bot, or a person with english as a third language.
Let’s say India did send agents to kill the Sikh agitator (advocate to be kind), would anyone be that surprised? If there was some influential French citizen of Quebec origins leading a Quebec separatist movement, or let’s say an American conservative with some Canadian following, agitating for western separatism, then how would the Ottawa government react to either of those situations? I would not necessarily expect a death squad to be dispatched, but the option would certainly be discussed and strong measures of some kind would be taken.
India’s policy, whether we like it or not, or whether we care or not, is to keep a united India and thwart Sikh separatism. They use the term terrorist which is an over-used word nowadays (to some, my concern about far left ideology could be described as right-wing terrorism).
If in fact India did send a death squad here to kill this individual, then it is a violation of our sovereignty, but possibly one which we encouraged by allowing something more threatening than just words to be organized by advocates of Khalistan. Some might say, it’s none of our business, let various factions in India deal with it, but at the same time, we are asking for predictable and understandable trouble if we allow separatist groups to organize acts that some foreign country might find to be violations of national security.
And if we turn around and say to India, this is part of the freedom enjoyed by any Canadian, then they are bound to say in return, then why did you act so harshly against your own citizens who disagree(d) with the COVID regulations? There is no way out for Trudeau on this, either CSIS was asleep at the switch and allowed these Sikhs to provoke India, or they were asleep at another switch and allowed a death squad into the country.
Of course some might say that our intel agencies were asleep all along, and allowed communists to take over our government, starting with a KGB agent and Cuban fellow traveler in the 1960s and 1970s. (papa)
This is excellent news. Canada needs to do the same.
Well there goes the International Indian Student gravy train that was keeping the whole economy chugging along …
No visas means no Deans and recruiters on student-rustling trips to India…