Back in 1982, Pierre Trudeau refused the extradition request of Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar. Pamar was the founder of Babbar Khalsa which was later designated as an international terrorist organization. Pamar instigated and directed the 1985 Kanishka bomb plot.
How imprudent were Pierre Trudeau's actions? Almost as a reflection on Pierre Trudeau's government, a commission led by justice John Major inquiring the Kanishka bombing gave a report in which Canadian police and spy agencies were blamed for grave negligence and hampering the investigation. John Major called the failure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Security and Intelligence Services to prevent the Kanishka bombing “inexcusable”.
If you fast forward to current times, "Sikhs for Justice" group founded by Pannun, who opened the "Shaheed Talwinder Singh Parmar Voter Registration Centre" for a joke of a referendum, was banned in 2019 by the Government of India under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. In 2020, Justice Patel upheld the government decision to ban this group. The High Court declared that the activities of the group were "threatening the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of India", that the group was working with anti-India entities and forces.
This should be enough for at least Indians and people of Indian origin to get behind India on this subject. Whether or not US and Canadian governments get behind India and cooperate with India to get separatists/terrorists extradited to India is not something that is in our control.
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