Jagmeet Singh

According to several sources cited by Global News, a suspected Indian government agent had closely monitored Singh, prompting the RCMP to provide enhanced protection from late 2023. The affair became public in 2025.

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Protagonist is the victim

After attending a Kendrick Lamar concert in Toronto, Singh faced a wave of criticism, notably from Drake and Canadian fans, against the backdrop of the public rivalry between the two rappers.

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In 2022, Singh concluded a confidence-and-supply agreement with Justin Trudeau, enabling the Liberal minority government to remain in office in exchange for progress on several NDP priorities. The agreement prompted criticism that the NDP was keeping an unpopular Liberal government in power.

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Direct responsibility

Singh was expelled from the House for the remainder of the day after describing Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien as 'racist' and refusing to withdraw the remark, during a debate on a motion concerning systemic racism within the RCMP.

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Following an armed intrusion at Rideau Hall, Singh argued that the police response would probably have been different if the perpetrator had been Indigenous, Black or otherwise racialised. Police chiefs considered it unfair to criticise individual officers in that way.

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An NDP advertisement aimed at Quebec initially showed Singh without his turban, with his hair loose, before showing him tying it. Against the backdrop of Quebec's Bill 21 on religious symbols, the decision raised questions about the image the party was trying to project.

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Singh faced intense questioning after initially avoiding explicitly endorsing the public inquiry's conclusion identifying Talwinder Singh Parmar as the mastermind of the 1985 Air India bombing.

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Singh called for Canada to classify the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide, a politically and diplomatically sensitive position in relations with New Delhi.

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Singh attended a 2016 seminar on Sikh independence where another speaker discussed the possibility of violence to achieve independence. The video fuelled questions in 2018 about Singh's connections with Sikh separatism.

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A video showed Singh speaking at a Sikh separatist rally in 2015 where the stage reportedly displayed a portrait of the leader of an extremist militant group, sparking major national controversy when the footage resurfaced in 2018.

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India refused a visa to Jagmeet Singh while he was an Ontario provincial legislator. Singh linked the refusal to his human rights activism and his positions on the 1984 violence against Sikhs.

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Political responsibility