Jagmeet Singh & reporter Terry Milewski have a tense exchange discussing the Air India bombing.
In an interview with Power & Politics on CBC, new NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was repeatedly asked the following question by reporter Terry Milewski: Is it acceptable for Talwinder Singh Parmar – who Milewski refers to as the architect of the Air India Bombings and Canada’s worst mass murderer – to be held up as a martyr and have posters of him displayed in a positive manner?
Singh was asked the question four separate times. Each time, he chose not to give a yes or no answer, instead trying to direct the conversation onto his vague Trudeau-style talking points – though he did clearly denounce the bombing as he has in the past. Watch the tense exchange below:
Jagmeet Singh wanted the interview questions ahead of time.
Before the interview began, Terry Milewski tweeted that Jagmeet Singh wanted the interview questions ahead of time, and threatened to cancel the interview if he didn’t get them.
Jagmeet Singh soon on @PnPCBC, after threatening to cancel if not told the questions first. He reconsidered on being told no.
— Terry Milewski (@CBCTerry) October 2, 2017
Milewski also tweeted after the interview was over, drawing attention to Singh’s response to the question on Air India bomber martyr posters:
New NDP leader declines to denounce display of “martyr” posters of Air India bomber. @PnPCBC
— Terry Milewski (@CBCTerry) October 2, 2017
Insane political correctness: Far left attacks Milewski as “racist”
While Conservative politicians regularly get brutally grilled by the media, whenever someone on the left has a tough interview, leftists go crazy. Milewski is a tough interviewer, and asks tough questions of everybody regardless of their background or political ideology. And yet, only now – after asking tough questions of Singh – is the left now attacking him as a racist.
It is racist, quite frankly. It's a double standard u apply to Sikhs, that somehow we're all collectively guilty of the actions of a few 4/
— Jaskaran Sandhu (@jaysingh_01) October 2, 2017
But this is how media works to embed criminality/terror into Blackness/Brownness. We're about to have a whole lot of uncomfortable convos
— Matthew Green (@MGreenWard3) October 2, 2017
can get facts.But I felt hurt by the racial under tones of Terry's questions.Ppl of colour need 2 b protected. Jagmeet is not a criminal.
— Bonnie Wood (@wood_brwood333) October 2, 2017
But I was looking forward to better from CBC.
I see racism everywhere.Jagmeet can help to
break that down but I see how dangerous it is.— Bonnie Wood (@wood_brwood333) October 3, 2017
CBC refuses to denounce racist newscaster
— Jay Yerex (@jaly100) October 3, 2017
You're racist. Someone has to fire you. Won't watch you ever again. If @theJagmeetSingh wasn't Sikh, your questions would be different
— Shaila Kibria-Carter (@ShailaCarter) October 3, 2017
Others pushed back against the crazy political correctness:
Leader of any party has to answer any and all questions. Sounds like he wasn't prepared for this interview.
— judy rudin (@judyrudin) October 2, 2017
The Air India bombing has been an open wound to the CDN psyche for 30+ years. Every pol needs an answer. Singh, too. History informs the q.
— judy rudin (@judyrudin) October 3, 2017
Others pointed out that Milewski goes after everybody:
Always a fan —> Terry Milewski: an equal-opportunity offender – The Globe and Mail https://t.co/6FbCmG1o6A
— Hayman Buwan (@realHayman) October 2, 2017
No political leader should be immune from criticism
Jagmeet Singh is like any politician, and he is not immune from criticism. The idea that Milewski is racist for asking questions of Singh is insane, and represents how out-of-control political correctness has become. This appears to be the tactic of the far-left: Call all criticism of Singh illegitimate of by accusing his critics of being racist. We need to make sure that tactic doesn’t work, because all prospective Canadian leaders must be willing to face tough questions.
Spencer Fernando
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If you do not agree with the left, you are a racists. Where is my Canada headed? Lets get rid of the word racists and bring the word thinker to the forefront. It is still a free country for now.
The word “racist” has been used so often and in so many contexts referring to so many things as to render it useless and irelevant. It is the purview of those with no legitimate argument or without the mental capacity to formulate even a bad one.
Absolutley! So agree!
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Yup . Political Correctness, will destroy Canada and eventually our freedom of speech. Trudeau and his political feminist and followers are the fate of Canadians.
this so called interviwer is from the cbc, what more can you expect.he says he is not for the liberals, i would tell him to his fat ugly face, you are a liberal, because he is as arrogant as his boss trudeau.
He certainly could have asked him other questions. Like why is he supporting M103? Also why did he praise Fidel Castro after his death as being a great leader to his people? NDP, with all your problems getting elected why did you pick this man?