Hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set to visit one of the biggest Sikh temples in Canada, his government agreed to change the language in a report on terror to no longer explicitly mention Sikh extremism.
The 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada released in December drew ire from Canada's Sikh community for talking about Sikh extremism for the first time as one of the top five extremist threats in Canada.
Because of the report's lack of evidence to back it up, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said he would at least ask for a review of the language the report used -- noting entire religions should never be equated with terrorism.
Instead of ``Sikh extremism'' future reports would -- if appropriate -- discuss threats posed by ``extremists who support violent means to establish an independent state within India.''
Balpreet Singh, the lawyer for the World Sikh Organization in Canada, says the change took too long and required too much effort from the community.