While the Conservative Party acted swiftly to drop Patel, calling his engagement with the post “clearly unacceptable,†the incident taps into a far more complex and volatile political reality — one that has shaped Canada’s domestic discourse and foreign policy for decades: the shadow of the Khalistan movement and its ties to terrorism, extremism, and diplomatic fallout.
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