Patrick Brown vows in video to end Canada’s ‘terrorist’ designation for Tamil Tigers via torontostar
OTTAWA—Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown says he will “lift the ban” on a designated terrorist organization known as the Tamil Tigers, open up immigration to “any Tamil family that wants to come to Canada” and, as prime minister, would apologize for Canada’s failure to help Tamil refugees as it has Ukrainians or the Vietnamese boat people.
“The Sri Lankan High Commission tells people that I’m LTTE. Literally, the high commission,” Brown says in the video. “So I’m going to lift the ban. I’m going to cancel the ban. I’m going to give a public apology. I firmly believe that those who are defending loved ones in Sri Lanka against a government that was committing a genocide — it was acts of self-defence against a Sri Lankan government that was acting in a manner that was a modern atrocity. Egregious. War criminals.
Brown notes “how quickly” the Canadian government has moved to fast-track Ukrainian refugees, adding, “I’m glad how Canada is helping Ukraine, for where there’s a will there’s a way. “I have been working on this issue since 2009. Canada and the global community took the wrong side in the Tamil genocide,” Brown said, echoing statements he makes in the video that the Sri Lankan government “has committed heinous war crimes.”
“The LTTE has also had an extensive network of fundraisers, political and propaganda officers and arms procurers operating in Sri Lanka and within the Tamil diaspora. Although the LTTE was militarily defeated in May 2009, subversion, destabilization and fundraising continue, particularly in the diaspora,” says the listing.
That source suggested it may have been deliberately leaked by Brown’s campaign in the belief that it will help “triple down” on his membership sales effort.
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