{"id":2380,"date":"2022-04-06T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2022-04-06T02:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:16:51","slug":"do-canadians-really-want-every-april-to-be-sikh-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Do Canadians really want every April to be \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do Canadians re<\/strong>ally want every April to be \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Dan Murray, Immigration Watch Canada \u2013 April 3, 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

:\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2022\/04\/03\/do-canadians-really-want-every-april-to-be-sikh-heritage-month\/<\/a> \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Canadians are completely unaware that Canada\u2019s Parliament passed a motion two years ago to make every April \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d. The one big questions many Canadians probably ask\u00a0 is this: \u201cWhat have the Sikhs done to deserve a whole month being set aside for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disgracefully, no MP\u2019s abstained or voted against the motion. \u00a0 Ironically,\u00a0 the behaviour of some of the earliest Sikhs to arrive in Canada (aboard a Japanese-named ship called the Panama Maru<\/em> in 1913) was a foreshadowing and a warning of\u00a0 massive Sikh abuse of Canada\u2019s immigration laws. It demonstrated Sikh willingness to use fraudulent documents. It also showed their arrogant attitude: They believed that they had a right to enter Canada and that Canada had no right to oppose their entry. There are many honest and humble Sikhs, but\u00a0 many\u00a0 believe the same thing today. The Panama Maru incident in 1913 also\u00a0 helps to explain much of what happened in the much larger Komagata Maru incident in 1914. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Sikhs repeatedly use the Komagata Maru <\/em>event to proclaim that they were victims and that Canada has to atone<\/a> to them by removing all barriers to Sikh immigration.\u00a0 In their whining, they omit many facts including the uncomfortable fact that they assassinated a Canadian immigration agent who had opposed them in 1914.\u00a0 They also omit the extremely important fact that Gurdit Singh (the leader of the Komagata Maru<\/em> expedition) boasted that if he succeeded in landing the 300+ Komagata Maru<\/em> passengers in Vancouver, he would bring 25,000 more Sikhs soon after. This threat alarmed Canadians in 1914 because if it were to come true, it would have greatly changed Vancouver\u2019s entire cultural make-up. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To show some context, consider this: around 1914, the City of Vancouver had a population of about 60,000. For details of the entire KM incident, see https:\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2008\/05\/22\/the-voyage-of-the-komagata-maru-a-review-and-a-short-summary\/<\/a> \u00a0 Here are some details of The Panama Maru<\/em><\/strong> incident of 1913:\u00a0 The ship called the Panama Maru carried 56 East Indians to Canada. Most of the passengers on that ship had not lived in Canada previously, but falsely claimed that they had. They produced fake money order receipts, time cards, etc. in order to enter Canada. Immigration authorities allowed 17 to land (those physically recognized to have been here before), but they detained 39 of the 56. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Board of Inquiry looked into the case and ordered that the 39 be deported. However, litigious East Indians in Canada determined to make the Panama Maru case a test case which, if won, would open Canada\u2019s border to a flood of Sikhs and other East Indians. The lawyer for the East Indians,\u00a0 J.Edward Bird, appeared before Justice Dennis Murphy, the author of a Royal Commission which had investigated Chinese Immigration Fraud. He ruled against the East Indians. Undaunted, Bird then went to Chief Justice Gordon Hunter, who was notorious for appearing drunk in court and who was a clear embarrassment to the government. Hunter allowed the 39 to stay. Worse still, 4 of the 39 who had been ordered deported for medical reasons, escaped from detention and could not be found. After this humiliating incident, Canadian immigration authorities undoubtedly resolved not to let the Sikhs humiliate them again, particularly those who arrived on the Komagata Maru <\/em>months later. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although many years of Sikh immigration peace followed, the Singh Decision of 1985 changed that and signaled the beginning of run-away, Sikh-caused refugee and immigration chaos in Canada. Between 1977 and 1981, six citizens of India (all Sikhs with the surname Singh) plus a Guyanese citizen of Indian heritage, made separate refugee claims in Canada. This should have been seen as another warning. In making their claims, the Sikhs continued a Sikh pattern of using litigation to break down any barriers to Sikh entry to Canada. Initially, all seven were denied entry, but they used a loophole in Canada\u2019s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (particularly the definition of the word \u201ceveryone\u201d to include non-Canadians such as them) and remained in Canada. In doing so, they turned Canada\u2019s refugee system into a quasi-judicial body which soon became mired in tens of thousands of claims (most of them illegitimate). <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2005\/03\/23\/the-1985-singh-decision-disaster-vs-the-1985-air-india-disaster\/<\/a> \u00a0 The most serious sin the Sikhs have committed in Canada was their bombing of Air India Flight 182. This resulted in the\u00a0 murder of 329 people. This was the largest mass murder in Canadian history. It is also the only thing that many Canadians think of when they hear the word \u201cSikh\u201d. Almost all of the Sikhs involved have not been punished. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The damage the Sikhs have done to Canada does not stop there.\u00a0 The cost of refugee claims has been very high.That alone should have moved many MP\u2019s to\u00a0 abstain in the voting for \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d\u00a0 or to vote against proclaiming April \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d.\u00a0 But disgracefully, it did not. \u00a0 For details about Sikh heritage to Canada,\u00a0 watch this film about the Sikh bombing of Air India Flight 182 and the murder of 329 people: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_India_182_(film<\/a>) \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do Canadians really want every April to be \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d? by Dan Murray, Immigration Watch Canada \u2013 April 3, 2022 :\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2022\/04\/03\/do-canadians-really-want-every-april-to-be-sikh-heritage-month\/ \u00a0 Most Canadians are completely unaware that Canada\u2019s Parliament passed a motion two years ago to make every April \u201cSikh Heritage Month\u201d. The one big questions many Canadians probably ask\u00a0 is this: \u201cWhat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1100,302,1706,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}