Indian Spokesman Bureau
Life-threatening mails, emails, and phone calls for ransom are the new dimension added to the rising crime directory in Canada, as the Justin Trudeau government’s soft laws are under public scrutiny to ensure sustaining peace.
Reports about ransom calls to some influential people on the lower mainland of BC are really disturbing. Yet a recent firing incident in the crowded Payal Business Centre in the heart of Surrey, allegedly due to the non-fulfilment of a ransom demand, has terrified many people. A source confided in me that a young entrepreneur had recently paid $2,00,000 as ransom money to secure his life without reporting the matter to the police. This incident may be the tip of the iceberg, as many of the ransom incidents are believed to be going unreported.
Why have ransom cases started surfacing in this peaceful country? How will the law enforcement agencies tackle this challenge, especially when their hands are tied with ‘legal restraint’? A thought-provoking discussion around this topic is expected to get shriller until a fool-proof law enforcement mechanism is put in place.
A growing sense of insecurity is armed with reasons, as statistical data shows a constant rise in crime since 2014. Cases of homicide, largely due to gang violence, gun crime, fraud, etc., have been on the rise for the past four years.
According to a senior journalist, Lorrie Goldstein, Canada was reaping the harvest of its kid-glove treatment policy on violent criminals implemented in the 1970s by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, father of Justin Trudeau.
“Five decades later, Canadians continue to reap the whirlwind of those decisions, with hardened criminals arrested, charged, and released on bail to commit more crimes or, upon conviction, receiving early parole, making a mockery of sentences pronounced in court,” commented Lorrie Goldstein in an article in the Toronto Sun.
Deviating from the past of brutal and inhuman access to indigenous people, Canada has come a long way towards creating an unblemished track record of safeguarding human rights. Protection of civil laws for civilized and peace-loving communities can only be ensured if blatant lawbreakers and criminals are given exemplary punishments.
In some of the cases, police find their hands tied to nail some hard-core criminals to reveal information about the masked perpetrators behind the crime. For example, RCMP arrested and charged two contract killers for killing a noted but controversial businessman, Ripudaman Singh Malik, in Surrey in 2022. But who got Malik killed? The police know nothing to date. It is, therefore, argued, don’t police need to be given special powers to nail hard-core criminals involved in cases of homicide, terrorism, drugs and weapons smuggling, rape, child abduction, ransom, etc.?
India, which is at loggerheads with Canada over the Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder controversy, has recently declared two gangsters, Lakhbir Singh Landa and Goldy Brar, as terrorists. In continuation of its allegation that Canada is harbouring some of the criminals responsible for committing crimes in India, the Indian government has claimed that Landa and Goldy Brar are hiding in Canada.
Communities wonder when Mr. Trudeau will get serious about alleviating the atmosphere of insecurity by putting stringent law enforcement mechanisms in place, besides dispelling the impression that Canada is used as a safe sanctuary for foreign criminals!
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