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David Atkinson’s Argument Against Martin Collacott is Pure Defamatory Trash

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David Atkinson’s Argument Against Martin Collacott is Pure Defamatory Trash
Martin Collacott, Old School Canadian, Facts and Analysis


David Atkinson’s article, “White supremacists ideas revived in Collacott oped,” spews out one defamatory label after another against Martin Collacott’s June 5 editorial, “Canada replacing its population a case of wilful ignorance, greed, excess political correctness,” without caring to offer one single fact-based, analytically constructed argument.

Collacot effectively condensed in his article the following empirically oriented claims:

  1. that according to professor Eric Kaufmann, “almost seven out of 10 Vancouver residents will be visible minorities within two generations and 80 per cent of the Canadian population (compared to 20 per cent today) will be non-white in less than century.”
  2. that the cost of mass immigration “is huge — with latest estimates indicating taxpayers have to underwrite recent arrivals to the tune of around $30 billion annually.”
  3. that Vancouverites have been “crowded out of the housing market by sky-high prices caused largely by the ceaseless flow of new arrivals.”
  4. that “the quality of life of most residents is negatively affected by increased traffic and commute times, along with congestion and pressure on the health care and education systems.”
  5. that “we are not facing looming labour shortages that we can’t meet with our existing workforce and educational infrastructure. Immigration, moreover, does not provide a realistic means of dealing with the costs associated with the aging of our population.”
  6. that we should consider the fact that those who advocate mass immigration may be doing so for their own personal or political benefits rather than Canada’s economic and cultural well being. The “benefit from continued high immigration include leaders of political parties bent on expanding their political base.” 
  7. that these beneficiaries also include “leaders of immigrant organizations eager to expand their support base and influence,” as well as “developers who want an endless supply of new homebuyers and are major funders of politicians and parties — particularly at the municipal level”.
  8. that Canada did benefit in the past from periods of high levels of immigration, and that “a moderate degree of diversity can make society more vibrant” [but] — “it is quite a different matter when it develops to a level where it overwhelms and largely replaces the existing population”
  9. that “many will bring with them values and traditions that may differ in key respects from those of most Canadians, such as gender equality and concern for protection of the environment.”
  10. that “Canadians deserve a full and informed public debate on the extent to which immigration policy will determine the future of the country. This should form the basis for a sensible public policy based on the long-term interests of the existing population, rather than those of special interest groups.”

Atkinson, who is an academic at Purdue University, does not tackle a single one of these empirically oriented claims, but instead unleashes one vitriolic claim after another, starting with the title which identifies Collacott as a “white supremacist.” The first sentence then calls Collacott’s argument “chauvinistic” and “white supremacist” again. The second sentence says that Collacott’s argument is nothing but a “thinly veiled invocation of ‘Yellow Peril’ rhetoric”. The third sentence dismisses all the claims by Collacott as “antiquated racial ideas”. The fourth and fifth sentences accuse Collacott of reviving arguments for a “White Canada” in the manner of the “anti-Asian exclusion movement in B.C. (and elsewhere) during the early 20th century.”

 
The sixth sentence equates Collacott’s argument with those who warned in the early 1900s of a “rising tide of oriental immigration.” In each of the next three sentences all we find are the phrases “widespread fear of impending white elimination,” “the irrational fear of an overwhelming Asian influx,” ” Komagata Maru.” The tenth sentence brings up again the word the never heard phrase “white supremacists,” and the eleventh sentence accuses Collacott of using a label, “white genocide,” “derived from the writings of convicted murderer David Lane”. The same eleventh sentence claims that Collacott is merely trafficking in “alt-right… simplistic meme-driven distortions of history, ethnicity, and identity.”

Cultural Marxist School Canadian: Facts and Analysis don’t matter; only defamatory labels do.


Professor Atkinson, how about one argument against the claims of Collacott? Well, in the twelfth sentence he finally brings up one argument  (#9 above), but only to dismiss it as the “same kind of disingenuousness favoured by alt-right activists.” The next sentence accuses, again, Collacott of echoing “his predecessors and the modern alt-right in blaming” those who benefit from mass immigration.

Strange yet true: academics today don’t like it when you blame political leaders, bureaucrats, developers, and special interest groups. Atkinson, it should be noted, has made a a career out of promoting immigration and calling anyone who disagrees with him a “racist.” His “forthcoming book” is entitled The Burdens of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Labor Migration in the British Empire and the United States.

The last three paragraphs of his article more or less repeat the same labels while identifying Collacott with the “white supremacist” exclusionary activists of a century ago, “defending the whiteness of British Columbia.” His conclusion is more of the same: “in reality, Collacott’s commentary squarely reiterates these previous champions of white supremacy.”

There you have it, ladies and gentleman, this is the trash that passes for scholarship among leftist professors who can’t think for themselves, who can’t engage in analysis, in open inquiry, but only in accusations and defamatory statements.

The little bit that can be categorized as historically minded in Atkinson’s article is fundamentally wrong. Essentially, what Atkinson tries to do is equate any objections with immigration today with objections a century ago, which is rather odd for a supposed historian to do, since one of the cardinal lessons in the historical profession is to learn how to judge each historical period on its own terms, to be aware that history is not static, and that immigration patterns, and cultural settings, over a hundred years ago cannot be equated with immigration realities today. Collacott distinctly makes this distinction, stating that he understands that Canada has benefited from immigration in the past. Collacott is only asking for our elites to take seriously the 10 points outlined above. He knows that Canadians are not being allowed to debate this issue openly.

It is truly a disgrace that a professor who is supposed to be a firm believer in freedom of expression and critical thinking, has decided to close off all debate with the extremist use of one defamatory label after another.

Atkinson writes that “Collacott nostalgically yearns for an imagined homogenous past that only ever existed in the minds of the province’s most obstinate white supremacists.” This criticism is common among our poorly educated academics. It is flat out wrong, as late as 1971, Canada was over 96 percent White! Deceiving your students is not a good thing. Let’s have an open debate based on historical facts and empirically verifiable statements, rather than rely on trashy labels.

Komagata Maru: Illegal in 1914; No Apology Needed Today! CFIRC Organizes Protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa

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Komagata Maru: Illegal in 1914; No Apology Needed Today!

CFIRC Organizes Protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

–30–

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

–30–

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.Maru: Illegal in 1914; No Apology Needed Today!

CFIRC Organizes Protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

–30–

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.