Janus-faced nature of Trudeau's politics

It is clear that Trudeau looks after his political constituencies, including minority communities more than he cares about indigenous people of Canada

- CHINTAMANI MAHAPATRA

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have become a household name in India for his dislike of India, love for Khalistan supporters in Canada and his occasional shedding of crocodile tears for the farmers of Punjab.

His diatribe against the government of India, accusing it of a murder of a terrorist in his home country is based on his claimed evidences that have neither been shared nor made public. Why has he not shared anything with the Indian government? Because India can easily find out the wilfully constructed evidences based on imagination or misinterpretation of facts. Why has he not made it public to his own people? Because, he thinks it would reveal the sources of his information. This is ridiculous because murder charges against a government cannot be made on the basis of his intelligence reports which need to be kept secret.

What the Indian people and the international community need to know is the Janus-faced politics he has been practising for years.

Indian people remember how he sought to intervene in domestic Indian politics at the time of farmers' strike during one of his visits to India. What the Indian attentive public is not adequately aware is about his treatment to the indigenous people in his country, known as the First Nations.

There are more than a million First Nations people organised into 630 communities in Canada. The Trudeau government has done very little to protect those people and has not been providing adequate funds to the concerned police departments, despite his declared intention to give them equal treatment with non-indigenous population.