Azaad
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I hope guys here get a feel of the upshot of all this. The Sikhs have traditionally been a very close knit community . It's not for nothing that they boast you'd never find a Sikh beggar. That's the kind of support they extend each other. The fallout of this clannish behaviour is it itself can't tell when does positive co operation of this sort slip into a kind of gangsterism territory.
Canada is not exactly a peaceful paradise as many here may consider it to be. There's a lot of gang related violence & a drug culture similar to that of the US but on a much reduced scale. The sub continent is represented there primarily by the Pakjabis to a large extent & JuttSikhi.
Now if you combine a close knit , relatively prosperous community with plenty of political clout punching far above its weight with a seedy underbelly & a penchant for political violence over a period of time obviously it's not going to go unnoticed by the majority community there. Backlash if anything is imminent & gets served Canadian style in small measures not dollops.
The only advantage the Sikhs enjoy there is their political arbitrage , voting en masse as they do , to whoever backs their agenda. For a long time this party used to be the Liberal Party but of late they've had to share this voteshare with the New Democratic Party ( whose president is Jagmeet Singh) more than a few degrees left , of center left Liberals. The nature of the polity being what it is is , seats are usually decided with wafer thin margins where every vote counts like in UK where you've more or less a replay of the same scenario .
Hence every ethnic & / or religious minority group which is socially cohesive & politically active can leverage their clout accordingly. Our best bet to offset the JuttSikhi influence is the Gujju Hindu lobby & they're fast gaining numbers & clout there being equally prosperous apart from being a well networked closely knit community.
