Vancouver based Fraser Institute criticized for providing a stage for tirade against Canada’s 750,000 Sikhs which calls for their disenfranchisement

Washington-based Khalistan Affairs Center takes up the issue with the Vancouver-based Institute and suggests an apology

Ottawa-based World Sikh Organization sues CBC for its anti-Sikh documentary ‘Samosa Politics’

 



Washington, D.C., Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - The Washington-based  Khalistan Affairs Center has taken up with the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, the dezinformatsiya launched by that notorious Sikh-hating Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan. She used a June 29 seminar in Toronto, organized by that Institute, to launch (> http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=823  <) a media misinformation campaign to try to disenfranchise, and demonize, the loyal peace-loving, 750, 000 strong, Canadian-Sikh minority.

 As if synchronized with the above mentioned Fraser Institute seminar CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) released, on 28 June, 2007, an anti-Sikh Video documentary, ‘Samosa Politics’, by reporter Terry Milewski, (with a concurrent radio broadcast) which also demonized the Canadian Sikhs. According to the Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail of 10 July, 2007, the Ottawa-based World Sikh Organization (WSO), has launched a lawsuit against the CBC for damaging the Canadian Sikh community’s reputation by airing many false statements in its’ June 28  documentary, ‘Samosa Politics.’ The WSO lawyer, James Morton, is quoted as saying that lawsuit deals with defamation, libel and slander, and seeks $110-million in damages. (> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070710.wsikh0710/EmailBNStory/Entertainment/home <)

These synchronized anti-Sikh efforts are a part of the dezinformatsiya campaign, launched in May 2007, (following the angry Sikh response to the ‘Sirsa Baba’ episode) which have been organized by (under cover) ‘agents provocateur’, RAW apparatchiks, housed in India’s diplomatic missions in Canada. (See Khalistan Calling, dated  4 July, 2007,  headlined, “Indian operatives, enjoying Canadian diplomatic immunity, target the peaceful and loyal Sikh-Canadians & their ethnic media with dezinformatsiya, a la the 1980s,” by clicking at:- > http://khalistan-affairs.org/home/khalistancalling/2007/july04.aspx  <)

Appended below is a Khalistan Affairs Center Press Release - suggesting an apology by Fraser Institute:-

PRESS RELEASE

Vancouver-based Fraser Institute criticized

for providing a stage for an anti-Sikh tirade

which calls for disenfranchisement  of

Canada’s 750,000 Sikhs   

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Apology suggested

Washington DC, Wednesday, 11 July, 2007: In a Press Statement issued here today, Dr. Amarjit Singh, Director of the Washington-based Khalistan Affairs Center, condemned the unwise, nay partisan, decision of the Vancouver-based FRASER INSTITUTE (4th Floor, 1770 Burrard Street, Vancouver BC Canada V6J 3G7) to provide a stage to a notorious, Sikh-hating, Vancouver Sun reporter, one Ms. Kim Bolan, to malign the peaceful, law-abiding Canadian-Sikh community. See Fraser Institute News Release dated 29 June, 2007 , headlined, "Canadian politicians look the other way while Sikh extremism undergoes resurgence," by clicking at: > http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=823   < 

In a protest letter addressed to Dean Pelkey, Director of Communications of the Fraser Institute, Dr. Amarjit Singh referred to the above Fraser Institute News Release, and pointed out that the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute known as an independent research and educational organization (whose primary mission, according to its website, is to measure, study, and communicate the impact of competitive markets and government intervention on the welfare of individuals) should not have allowed Ms.Kim Bolan to propagate a line (Indian dezinformatsiya really) which seeks to intimidate the peaceful, law-abiding, Canadian Sikh community with Canadian government intervention for supporting the UN sanctioned right of self-determination, for a South Asian buffer state of Khalistan, as a haven for the captive people of their former homeland of Punjab unhappy under Indian-occupation ever since Imperial Britain quit the subcontinent in August of 1947.

Dr. Amarjit Singh statement went on to say that, "despite the declared noble mission of the Fraser Institute a demented character like Ms. Kim Bolan  was provided a stage, as the main speaker, to air her prejudiced, anti-Sikh, half-truths to malign the peaceful law-abiding Sikh community of Canada. The Fraser Institute should apologize from the 750, 000 strong Canadian-Sikh community whose feelings have been hurt. Dr. Amarjit Singh’s letter to the Fraser Institute is appended below:-

 

To:

Dean Pelkey,
Director of Communications,
The Fraser Institute
Head Office
4th Floor, 1770 Burrard Street
Vancouver BC Canada V6J 3G7

Tel (604) 714-4582
Tel: (604) 688-0221 Fax: (604) 688-8539
Email: deanp@fraserinstitute.ca

 

 

Dear Mr. Dean Pelkey:

Kindly refer to Fraser Institute News Release, headlined, "Canadian politicians look the other way while Sikh extremism undergoes resurgence,” (> http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=823   <) dated 29 June, 2007.

Sir, according to your website the primary mission of the Fraser Institute is to measure, study, and communicate the impact of competitive markets and government intervention on the welfare of individuals. Surely allowing a notorious demented hate-filled individual, like Ms. Kim Bolan, to demonize the loyal, peace-loving three quarters million strong Canadian-Sikh community, (as part of a campaign orchestrated by Indian Intelligence agents provocateurs who enjoy Canadian diplomatic impunity) would be an act at odds with the noble mission statement of the prestigious Fraser Institute.

Your News Release dated 29 June, 2007, which broadcasts Mr. Kim Bolans’ drivel, interestingly  ( > http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=823   <) concludes with the following insane,  nay fascist, suggestion from the lady journalist to disenfranchise the Canadian Sikhs:- “Change the nomination rules around who can vote. That little thing will reduce the extremists’ power and influence.” Some suggestion!

It seems to us that Ms. Kim Bolan has taken advantage of the situation, to broadcast her anti-Sikh twaddle from your stage, as she probably realized that the June 29 seminar in Toronto may be the first meet organized by your esteemed organization on the particular subject of ‘immigration and terrorism.’ A similar anti-Sikh attempt was made by agents provocateurs housed in the Indian Consulate General in Vancouver last month, in early June 2007, to exploit the naïve management of VANCOUVER 24 HOURS to broadcast their anti-Sikh hateful lies and misinformation. (> http://khalistan-affairs.org/home/pressreleasejune7,2007.aspx  <)

An expression of regret, or an apology, by the Fraser Institute would put the record straight.

 

Yours sincerely
Dr. Amarjit Singh
Director
Khalistan Affairs Center
Suite 956 – National Press Building
529 – 14th street, NW

Washington DC 20045 USA

Tel: 202-637-9210
E-Mail: > kacwashdc@yahoo.com  <   
Dated 11 July, 2007 

TAILPIECE: Readers are also urged to write a polite letter to Dean Pelkey, Director of Communications, The Fraser Institute, 4th Floor, 1770 Burrard Street Vancouver BC Canada V6J 3G7 (E-Mail:  Email: > deanp@fraserinstitute.ca  <) registering their pain at this attempt to demonize the peace loving Canadian Sikh community.