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It may be bearable, if amusing, that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been playing Mr. Dressup on his Indian tour, he and the missus and the young ’uns donning more authentic garb than you could find in the average Indian’s tickle trunk.

What is not is that one of the vast number of MPs travelling with the PM invited a convicted terrorist to a dinner/reception this week at the official residence of the Canadian High Commissioner, apologized for his lousy judgement and that appears to be that.

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The convicted terrorist is Jaspal Atwal, who on Feb. 27, 1987 was convicted with three other men by a British Columbia jury of the attempted assassination of a visiting Indian politician.

They were members of the International Sikh Youth Federation, a now-banned organization that advocated for a separate Sikh homeland called Khalistan.

The target was Malkiat Singh Sidhu, then a member of the Punjab cabinet, and he had come to Canada and a remote part of Vancouver Island with his wife for the wedding of their nephew in May of 1986.