How to Capitulate to the Khalistanis and Win Votes” could well be the title of a future book by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau . A sequel could follow: “How to Ruin Relations with India and Survive. Or Not.”Trudeau’s decision last week to cleanse all references to Sikh/ Khalistani extremism from Canada ’s annual report on the terrorism threat -- to endear himself to a few hotheads who are increasingly subverting democratic politics in his country -- is a dangerous and risky venture. And utterly desperate.In fact, so desperate that Trudeau seems willing to undermine his own security establishment which was already late in recognizing the full scope of Sikh terrorism, extremism, radicalization – choose your word according to your level of political correctness.To scrub the 2018 report of references made for the first time to Khalistani extremism is nothing but total surrender to the powerful gurudwara committees which claim to control the half million strong Canadian Sikh community.Think about that. This is where some liberal, evolved countries are today – pandering to vote banks and bowing to the regressive few who claim to speak for all. Trudeau’s minister for public safety or home minister, Ralph Goodale, bent backwards and ordered a language review to make “appropriate changes” to describe extremism in future reports.“We must never equate one community or entire religions with extremism,” he said. Sure, we must not. But should he do somersaults because a few hardline Sikh leaders in Canada defiantly asked him to “prove it, or remove it?”Trudeau and Goodale could have removed the word “Sikh” but why scrub “Khalistani” – a well-defined, well-articulated and well-documented ideology, if you care to know history. Khalistanis have killed and injured people in numerous attacks in India, Canada and Britain.It’s well known that prominent Sikh leaders, who control the gurudwara cash boxes and the community vote by fear and fiat, had openly threatened Trudeau that he would get neither money nor support if he didn’t wash the report.They warned they would bar him from community events, especially the biggest show -- the Vaisakhi parade of Vancouver. The parade is the main cultural/political event on the Sikh calendar in Canada.So 24 hours before the Vaisakhi event, Trudeau succumbed to pressure, which had been mounting since December when the report was released. Incidentally, the report retains references to Shia and Sunni extremism among the top terrorism threats to Canada.“Sikh (Khalistani) extremists” were mentioned among the five gravest threats for the first time – long decades after the 1985 bombing by Sikh terrorists of the Air India’s Kanishka flight from Toronto. All 329 aboard died. A botched Canadian investigation and an eyes-shut attitude resulted in the conviction of only the bomb maker, not the planners.No surprise since the Canadian establishment treated the Kanishka bombing as an “Indian tragedy” not a national tragedy even though 280 of the victims were Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Until the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the bombing of Air India flight 182 was the deadliest terrorist attack in aviation history and remains the worst in Canadian history.As then, so now. Trudeau is playing with fire. There is little doubt that Canada has become the nerve centre of the Khalistani movement and local authorities are asleep at the wheel or worse, complicit.Why else would Trudeau and other politicians from his Liberal Party vie with each other to appear on stage where Sikh terrorists are deified on posters and in speech? What’s that if not normalization of extremism in the guise of freedom of expression and liberal democratic values?Minus the six references to Khalistan and eight references to Sikh extremism, the amended report effectively conveys that radicalization and extremism are permitted as long as they are not violent.Who’s going to monitor the radicalization and prevent the inevitable violence? Violence is the end result of a process, not a thunderbolt from the heavens. When Trudeau and company seem afraid to even use the word “Khalistani” because of a certain vote bank, they don’t represent all constituents, only the loudest ones.This comes after Trudeau’s disastrous visit to India last year when Jaspal Atwal, a separatist convicted of attempting to assassinate a visiting Indian minister, was invited to a reception and posed for photos with the first lady.As some say, the visit wasn’t to India, the country, but to the Golden Temple so Trudeau could win points with the Sikh community and counter a potential rival, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party, a turban-wearing Sikh, back in Canada.Singh, a separatist sympathizer, condemned Sikh separatism and the Air India bombing only belatedly and under pressure and when he realized he was losing support among White Canadians.Canada is not a joke but consider another Sikh leader Moninder Singh’s claim made to the National Post this week that the three AK-47s on the logo of Sikh Liberation Front – a group he founded -- was not a call to arms but ordinary imagery of resistance. Singh was in the forefront to ban Trudeau’s party from gurudwars.SLF’s Instagram feed is filled with tributes to Sikh terrorists, including the assassins of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Open calls for the dismemberment of India can be found in rap videos posted by Sikh Canadians. Yet, the Canadian establishment continues to appease them.Competition for the Sikh vote in Canada is fierce as the October national election approaches. The Sikh community has weight, no doubt, and some might say disproportionately so. Of the 338 members of the Canadian parliament, 16 are Sikhs or 4.7% while Sikhs are only 1.4% of the total population.Margins of victory can be very slim, sometimes just a hundred votes or fewer. Politicians get desperate but in the end a government should act in the larger national and global interest, not some angry men nursing grievances.