NDP SINGH'S COMPLEX WEASEL WORDS

    The real sticking point in most of Singh’s interviews, and most notably the one he did with Carol Off on CBC radio, was on the question of violence. Off repeatedly asked Singh if he would say yes or no as to whether or not he approved of violence in the furtherance of Sikh goals. Singh simply refused to answer. He kept returning to the phrase: “It’s complex.”
   On the Air India bombing, Mr. Singh had said since he became NDP Leader last October that he didn’t know who was responsible. A Canadian judicial commission concluded in 2010 that Mr. Parmar, who was never convicted and died in 1992, had orchestrated the bombing.
   Video has also surfaced of Mr. Singh at a controversial event in Brampton in March, 2011, two months before he was elected to the Ontario legislature. It was held to denounce then-federal Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh, an outspoken opponent of Sikh fanaticism.
   Like other speakers at the 2011 town hall, Mr. Singh said Mr. Dosanjh had slandered and “attacked the Sikh faith … attacked the Sikh community” with his criticism of extremism.