02/26/2026
"They must take us for idiots."
Balpreet Singh, legal counsel for WSO speaks to after yesterday’s news when a senior official claimed India is no longer linked to violent crimes and transnational repression in Canada.
This conversation didn’t start yesterday. It started with the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023 and years of intimidation before that.
No justice. No accountability. Just political backtracking.
Even the Privy Council Office acknowledged, ahead of Mark Carney’s first engagement with Narendra Modi, that public accountability was necessary.
So where is it?
If Canada cannot defend its own rule of law, its own sovereignty, where does it end?
World Sikh Organization of Canada