The National Post Gave A Platform To Indian Disinfo
"Ujjal Dosanjh has become a consistent and prominent conduit for Indian state disinformation."
Balpreet Singh
June 26, 2025 | 4 min. read | Analysis
On June 21, the National Post published an opinion piece by Ujjal Dosanjh and Joe Adam George titled “Canada has put up with Khalistani terrorists for long enough.” The piece contains several serious factual errors, relies on discredited sources, and repeats disinformation narratives that have been long promoted by the Government of India. In doing so, it does not merely offer an opinion; it endangers members of Canada’s Sikh community at a time when they are already facing rising threats, surveillance, and harassment.
Ujjal Dosanjh has become a consistent and prominent conduit for Indian state disinformation.
Over the years, he has repeatedly attempted to promote the narrative that Sikh extremism is on the rise in Canada, despite a lack of credible evidence. Rather than upholding the responsibilities associated with his former roles as premier of British Columbia and a federal cabinet minister, Dosanjh now functions more as a spokesperson for the Government of India, echoing its propaganda and advancing disinformation campaigns aimed at discrediting and marginalizing Canadian Sikhs.
Among the most reckless claims made in the article is the assertion that Peel Regional Police dismantled a major “narco-terrorism” network in the Greater Toronto Area linked to Khalistan sympathizers, with proceeds from drug trafficking allegedly funding protests, referendums, and the acquisition of weapons.
This claim is categorically false.
In direct response to an inquiry, Peel Regional Police confirmed there is absolutely no evidence linking any aspect of the Project Pelican investigation to anti-India activities or the Khalistan movement.
They further clarified that the term “narco-terrorism” would not be an accurate representation of the investigation, which involved dismantling a drug trafficking ring operating through commercial trucking and did not uncover any violent acts or ideological motivation. No credible Canadian media outlet has ever linked Project Pelican to Khalistan. These narratives appear only in Indian state-aligned media, which Canadian government officials have repeatedly warned are used as tools of foreign disinformation.
India ranks 151st out of 180 countries on the 2025 World Press Freedom Index and has a documented record of exporting propaganda through its national media. Canada’s own Global Affairs officials testified to the Foreign Interference Commission in October 2024 that India has a “formidable capacity” to conduct disinformation campaigns using its state media to target Sikh Canadians. These campaigns are not hypothetical. They are active, deliberate, and increasingly bold.
The article goes on to falsely claim that CSIS testified about Khalistani elements in Canada receiving covert support from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). This is simply untrue. The cited hearing, held on September 27, 2024, contained no such testimony. The ISI was not mentioned at all.
The statement is a complete lie.
The authors also reference the 2023 UK Bloom Review as evidence of dangerous pro-Khalistan activity. What they fail to mention is that this section of the Bloom Review was widely rejected across the United Kingdom by Sikh organizations and legal experts alike.
The Sikh Federation UK described it as a “hatchet job” on Sikh institutions that stand up for human rights and speak out against Indian government abuses. The Sikhs in Law Association concluded that the review was flawed in both methodology and conclusions, demonstrating a lack of understanding of the Sikh community and rendering it unsafe and unreliable for use by any government department. Omitting this widespread condemnation while citing the review as credible misleads readers and distorts the public conversation.
Perhaps most egregiously, the article attempts to link the Khalistan movement to terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Lashkar-e-Taiba, relying on reporting from Indian media and the Eurasian Times, an outlet that has been flagged as unreliable and is widely known for publishing India-aligned disinformation. Presenting these sources as credible, without any independent corroboration from Canadian or international outlets, falls far below the standards expected of responsible journalism.
These repeated falsehoods are not simply careless errors. They are components of a larger pattern in which Indian authorities and their proxies abroad attempt to delegitimize Sikh political advocacy by branding it as extremist or criminal.
Investigations by CBC, The Washington Post, Press Progress, , and Canada’s own Foreign Interference Commission have shown how Indian intelligence services manufacture and export narratives that cast Sikh political demands, particularly calls for an independent Sikh state, as threats to national security or as links to criminality. That these narratives appeared verbatim in a national Canadian newspaper without scrutiny or challenge is deeply alarming.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada has formally written to the National Post to highlight the numerous factual errors in the Dosanjh and George article and to request a correction or retraction. That was on Monday. As of this writing, the National Post has failed to respond.
This silence is troubling.
It suggests that the publication is content to serve as a platform for Indian state propaganda, regardless of how such falsehoods may endanger Canadian communities or distort public discourse. In choosing not to correct the record, the National Post undermines its own credibility and contributes to the spread of disinformation within our democracy.
This is not a debate about ideology or geopolitics. It is about facts, accuracy, and the duty of Canadian media to protect the public from foreign interference and targeted hate. The Sikh community in Canada has been repeatedly targeted by threats and disinformation campaigns. Publishing inflammatory falsehoods about Sikhs, disguised as opinion, contributes directly to that climate of hostility.
The National Post has a responsibility not only to its readers, but to Canadian democracy. It must correct the record and ensure that its platform is not used to spread propaganda that puts Canadian lives at risk.
Balpreet Singh hails from Toronto, Canada, and is the spokesperson and legal counsel for the World Sikh Organization of Canada.
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