The countrys political leadership is still engaging in vote-bank politics and failing to publicly condemn threats and violence against Khalistan extremists, despite the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) providing security escort to Indian diplomats and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) being concerned about the radicalisation of Sikh separatists.The RCMP and CSIS are in close communication with the Indian High Commission and Consulates in Canada and have provided escort and two officers to key diplomats in Toronto and Vancouver in response to calls for protest rallies in those cities.The SFJ chairman G S Pannu, a dual citizen of Canada and the US, is leading a group of Sikh extremists who intend to march to the Indian embassies in Toronto and Vancouver on July 8 in protest of the execution of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver on June 19. On July 16 in the Greater Toronto Area, and in September in the Greater Vancouver Area, the SFJ also intends to organise referendums.Pannu, who was involved in the inter-gang killings of Nijjar in Vancouver and Avtar Singh Khanda in the UK, is currently off the radar but is anticipated to reemerge before the demonstration on July 8.
