“Free speech for Khalistan, treason for Alberta, Quebec: Canada’s hypocrisy comes home to roost”, Firstpost, 07 Oct 2026.
“The Canadian High Commissioner was attacked in New Delhi by a group of Alberta and Quebec separatists, one of them wielding a sword. He was on his way to attend an event in the Indian capital, where about 150 separatist protesters had gathered outside the venue.
“Yes, a couple of times, they came very close to bodily harming us,” the High Commissioner later told a news agency.
But that was not all.
A tableau depicting the assassination of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau was displayed at a parade in New Delhi commemorating the October Crisis of 1970. That year, the Front de libération du Québec, a militant separatist group seeking Quebec’s independence, kidnapped British diplomat James Cross and Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte, bringing a decade-long campaign of separatist violence to a head. Laporte was murdered, and then prime minister Pierre Trudeau — father of Justin Trudeau — invoked the War Measures Act, leading to sweeping arrests and the detention of hundreds of people in Quebec.
Ottawa protested vociferously, calling these developments an assault on Canada’s democracy and sovereignty. Delhi, while expressing sympathy for Canadian “concerns”, refused to intervene, citing the democratic rights and freedom of expression of the protesters. Instead, it advised the Canadian government to do more to address the anger, grievances and “rightful democratic demands” of the Alberta-Quebec separatist movement………….”
Read the full article at Firstpost.
