A Liberal MP has openly criticized his fellow MPs and his government for pandering to the Sikh Khalistan movement, saying their behaviour is damaging Canada-India relations.

Ramesh Sangha, MP for Brampton Centre, told a Mississauga Punjabi-language television channel that Liberals are divided on the issue of supporting the Khalistan movement, but many are clearly pandering to their supporters.

“There is no doubt, there cannot be two opinions that the Liberal party is pandering [to] Khalistan supporters,” Sangha said.

“One thing is for sure when we raise this issue, it will raise an anti-India slogan or demand the division of India on some ground. In that, ultimately our relations, the Canada-India relationship will certainly develop cracks.”

Khalistanis are those within the Sikh community that wish to see an ethnostate for Sikhs carved out of Indian territory. It has little support among Sikhs in Canada and India alike.

When asked if he thought that the Liberal Party had a “soft corner” for Khalistanis, his response was clear.

“It does,” he said.

Sangha serves as chair of the Canada-India Parliamentary Association, a group of parliamentarians who follow Canada-India relations. It was through the Association that his concerns developed, he said.

Sangha blamed the disruptions in Canada-India relations in the past couple years to elements within the Liberal party which continue to support the Khalistani movement against Canada’s wishes.

“[The prime minister] said in strong words that we don’t want a divided India, we want a united India and we will work for that. Sikh ministers, MPs of our Sikh brotherhood, these brothers of mine, they have their own… These are their views and as long as they demand it, it is viewed that they are separatists. When this view surfaces, India also voices its hard view,” Sangha said.

Canada-India relations have been rocky since Trudeau’s embarrassing state visit two years ago when a convicted Khalistani terrorist joined Canada’s delegation to India. Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s close advisor, claimed the Indian government wanted to embarrass Trudeau.

The Chief Minister of India’s Punjab province has also accused Trudeau of pandering to the Khalistan movement to try and gain votes in October’s general election.

In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office firmly denied any support for Sikh extremism but did not address Sangha or his remarks directly.

As first reported by Blacklocks, a government audit revealed a government subsidy scheme to promote the use of biofuel failed to reach production goals in all metrics. 

The ten year, $965 million Department of Natural Resources program saw the taxpayer help establish biofuel producers and pay them for the production of ethanol and biodiesel.

Producers received 10 cents for every litre of ethanol produced and 20 cents for every litre of biodiesel produced from the taxpayer.

“The program was expected to contribute to the establishment of a self-sufficient industry,” said the audit.

“Evidence is equally inconclusive as to the extent to which the renewable fuels industry has become competitive as a result of the program.”

The ambitious plan saw over 100 applicants looking to enter the generous subsidy scheme, compared to only 30 targeted. Of the 38 companies which received subsidies only 20 met their goals, two went bankrupt and twelve were “non-compliant.”

The overall production targets were not even close to being met. The 38 companies produced 300 million litres less ethanol and 70 million litres less biodiesel than expected. 

True North’s Leo Knight believes the government is meeting the sobering reality that these carbon emissions schemes rarely reach their goals.

“Typical of this government’s mismanagement. Their green dream fanaticism doesn’t work in the real world,” he said.

As the audit did not measure the environmental impact of the program, it is impossible to measure how much Canada’s carbon emissions were actually reduced as a result.

The MacDonald-Laurier Institute summed up the expensive and unsuccessful subsidies scheme in more certain terms, highlighting the low return on investment for the taxpayer.

“Canada’s biofuel support programs have been a dismal failure. The policy has failed to deliver value to Canadian taxpayers,” said a press release from the group.

Two aides of former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne received over $450,000 from the taxpayer in severance packages just days after their electoral defeat in 2018.

Andrew Bevan, Wynne’s chief of staff, and Mary Rowe, her executive advisor, agreed to “enhanced termination payments” a week after Wynne’s government was decimated in the provincial election on June 7, 2018.

The two remained on government payroll until October 19, 2018, long after their employment was officially terminated on June 29.

In the period after the election but before the transition of power, the Ontario Liberal Cabinet gave Bevan $247,756 and give Rowe $204,497. The total severances for the two was $452,253.

Bevan worked for the premier’s office for five years, Rowe only worked there for less than two years.

“These recommendations were based on previous practices by governments of all stripes. Termination packages were then decided on by cabinet,” Bevan said.

This is not the first time the Bevan and Rowe were in the news for their income.

Bevan and Rowe were both on the “sunshine list,” consisting of bureaucrats that earn over $100,000. In March, True North reported that their combined salary was nearly $1 million in 2018.

Not only were these two highly paid, between 2017 and 2018 the Ontario government gave them outrageous raises.

Bevan’s wage went from $314,000 in 2017 to $552,000 in 2018. Rowe went from $259,000 in 2017 to just over $428,000 in 2018.

When Gerald Butts had Bevan’s job in 2007, his salary was only $157,675. Although Butts’ salary as principal secretary to Justin Trudeau has not been made public, in 2017 no staffer in the PMO made more than $350,000.

Bevan was paid at least over $200,000 more than his federal counterpart did in the last full year of Wynne’s term as premier.

When Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford heard about the sunshine list, he was understandably dismayed.

“They call this the sunshine list, but for hard-working people of Ontario, there is nothing sunny about it. Liberals insiders and fat cats are getting raises while real folks in Ontario haven’t gotten a raise in years,” tweeted Ford.

True North’s Anthony Furey recently sat down with a group of North Korean defectors living in Canada who are slated for deportation to South Korea.

They want to stay here on grounds of compassion.

Check it out at the Toronto Sun!

Update: The British government has denied that Jon Venables will be sent to Canada.

Notorious child-killer and paedophile Jon Venables will be given money to move to Canada in a few short days because “it will be cheaper for UK taxpayers,” according to a report in the Daily Mail.

“The thinking is that it would be cheaper to get rid of him abroad, than keep forking out,” an insider source told the British newspaper.

Canadian sources have yet to confirm whether the country will be accepting Venables.

Venables was charged with the brutal murder of two-year-old James Bulger when he was ten years old. He has been granted new identities and kept anonymous by British officials since being convicted in 1993. 

Venables and another ten-year old accomplice, Robert Thompson, snatched Bulger from a Liverpool shopping mall. 

Officials claim they have grown weary of keeping his identity hidden from the public, who have exposed his past identities.

Venables is now 36-years old and is expected to be released and transferred abroad, most likely to Canada. Australia and New Zealand are also being considered as options.

Insider sources claim that the transfer will take place at night due to the risk posed by a “handful of people who know who he really is and where he is.” 

A British court ruled against a bid by Bulger’s family to have his identity revealed over concerns posed against his safety.

After his initial conviction, Venables was further jailed for possessing a paedophile manual and over 1,000 images of child pornography. 

On Sunday, Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer, tweeted that it was “disturbing that this pedophile child killer might come to Canada. Apparently this isn’t the first time this has come up.”

“As Prime Minister I won’t let him come here. Where does Trudeau stand? Our country should not be a dumping ground for murderers, terrorists, and perverts.”