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Johnny Silverhand is Canadian!? But he only apologizes sarcastically!

I'm sure yhe countries people flee canada too are exeplicably perfect. Apologies too all yhe people who are victims of totalitarian regimes and dictatorships for having tricked you in comming here. Funding you. Housing you till you could find your way and please forgive us ....pffff

F the college they only want one type of style and they want the white girls to be on the black guys thats it. So that apology letter was nothing short of a dismissal

Apology is there...look he is smiling...brave sikh

Slavery, residential schools and now exploitation of international students, Canada passively supports these things. Some PR campaign, acknowledgment and apology will solve everything. It’s a Canadian thing it seems. If you think I am being harsh, watch the full documentary and tell me why would Canada not sign the agreement with other countries like USA, UK, Australia etc to allow for ethical recruitment of international students?

They should first know more about religions in this world. Imagine if you were in his place. It's great that they atleast apologized.

She SHOULD NOT APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE FO HER POLICE WHO DETECTED A POTENTIAL WEAPON AND INVESTIGATED IT!!! IF HE HAD USED IT AS A WEAPON AND KILLED CO EDS ETC, THEN EVERYONE WOULD POINT OUT EVERY COP THAT PASSED BY HIM!!!

I think it’s cute that Indians think that the letter of apology means he can now carry a knife on campus.

Don't worry an apology in the making few years from now.

1) someone who didn’t knew what a kirpan is, called cops.\n2) The cop didn’t knew bout it either.\n3) they thought he possessed a weapon.\n(It’s ok cuz ofc they had no idea bout it)\n4) as y’all can see, after further investigation, they apologized\n??‍♂️ that’s it. No hate to anyone. It’s alright, not everybody on this planet knows about Sikhism and the rules we have to follow. \n(To some people who’ll still say that “a weapon is a weapon and he can harm us”\n… bro stfu and do y’all’s research man ? \nIt’s the same logic as “a cop is carrying a gun and he can harm us at any moment.”

Police should have apologized

Why they apologized?? USA is becoming a joke

Ppl commenting here are missing the point that chancellor apologized and educated people about Sikhism in his letter …unlike india where political parties would rather not muslim girls study than let them wear hijab …hijab is not a security threat ……talking about respecting all religion in current bjp ruled India …again majority of secular Indians need to stand up against this slow poison in India

As a Muslim I feel pain for him. Becoz look at his face how much he feel insulted and traumatized that he did not do anything just he is following his religion and he got arrested just for wearing kirpan and that even kirpan is allowed to wear in all over world for sikh. And look at the University they just issued apology and they just come clear.

If it was in India, the college wouldn't even care to write an apology like this, that's the real difference

keep your relogious belief at your home state ..even in india they should nt be alllowed to carry this in public outside their home state. nobody can guarantee the mental state of a human.recently a video went viral where a sikh guy who was a goon publicy stabbed a person over a verbal fight. well done by police and there was no need for apology by college. a country or state should run by their own rules and culture .

They didn’t apologize they said you cannot have knives on campus and that they would like to have a dialog about safety on campus and education on those beliefs. You will still be unable to wear a knife around your neck on a school campus

I think some people in a comment section are so dumb they apologized for what happened and some fucking people from India criticizing that they should follow the rules lol even in Europe we have right to carry kirpan bcoz maybe gore can understands Sikh religion more then some people in India

Racism against Indian is really not new there have been things like this going on. Well US proves ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS . P.S APOLOGIES after committing crime.

I speak for myself and not on behalf of anyone.\n\nFirstly, in any such situation be it any religion, caste etc, before reacting, imagine if this was happening to your own son/daughter, your own brother/sister. \n\nSecondly what faith one chooses to practice and how they embrace it, be it wearing a kirpan, a burqa, or keeping a shika(choti), etc, especially opinions like what one can or cannot wear/do, lead to more harm than good. We don't live there, it's not our religion, it's not our life, then who are we to condemn and be opinionated about them.\n\nThirdly, whether the kirpan should be allowed inside an educational campus can only be determined by the campus authorities, the local police and the Sikh community representatives there.\n\nYes, he could have and should have worn it on the inside just like so many Brahmins wear the sacred white thread (yajnopavita).\n\nHe could have taken prior permission from the college authorities to freely wear it if possible and all this could have been avoided. Maybe he doesn't get the permission to wear it, who knows, there are countless possibilities.\n\nAnd lastly, I've come across so many comments labelling the Sikhs as Khalistanis, then if there's some other incident, commenting that people of so and so faith are terrorists, etc.\n\nBy all means, please call us Khalistanis, please call us terrorists, call us anything you like, but we'll continue to respect and love everyone.\n\nIt's a shame that our Jawaans are dying on the border fighting for their country, fighting for our country, fighting for us and we are creating divisions amongst ourselves. Petty name calling and what not.\n\nWe are Indians first, any Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, or Parsi...Indian getting harassed is my brother/sister getting harassed. Their loss is our loss.\n\nPS: If I have offended anyone, my apologies.

Never apologize for cowards! You only then condone the behavior of fear. Mixing fear and cowardness is uncontrollable chaos. Oh America! Land of the brave and land of the free.????

There should be no apology you brought a weapon to school this is plain and simple

The officer didn't know, he took action based on his assumption.\nthe college apologized for the incident\n\nNo assault, the student followed instruction, and was safe throughout. \n\nSomeone made a mistake and then fixed it.\n\n\nBut the comment are filled with opinions from biases to India pak to religion and what not\n\n\nfor onces, see the main facts and don't telecast it as a WWIII

bro fck the apology sue the school and the police department and get a nice paycheck seriously

i respect that police officer too...who did wat a police officer should do for safety of people....he is a sikh and he is in another country where not everyone know about the religion , culture and things that other religious people carry with them...so he did his duty....and thn after knowing everything about the kirpan they apologies...thats how a country should do and respect other culture and religion

Shouldn't have been an apology letter. Instead a letter clearly stating the list of prohibited weapons should have been attached along with a reminder of not identifying himself with similar or same weapons

Respect people and their lands. Keep your religion in your respective country! Not sure as to why the chancellor apologized.

Still those people are new to Shikh community? Such kind of things keep happening and then static apology letter .

Why did the university issue apology? Just cause his religion follows this doesn't mean we can put security at risk. A knife is a knife, religion shouldn't interfere with law and order

Well the officer was just doing his duty i don't think he did it intentionally and how ' d he know about these religious traditions there ' s nothing bad happened with this guy he should ' ve took off his kirpaan before entering the college or any non public. Place the officer was just concerned about his people that's it don't exaggerate this p. S my apology if anyone sentiments get hurt by my words that ' s my personal opinion ?

apologies don't do anything I think the way he was handcuffed and probably has never experienced such thing in his life. The police officer should be sentenced some time in prison handcuffed to know how it feels to discriminate someones religion and beliefs. Its disgusting he got away with it and is still a police officer disgusting he shouldn't have a job either after this

half assed apology, disgusting cops

The university Chancellor has already apologized. Keep roaring Khalsa!!

Apology for shit....... No student in India wears a kirpan. Arrest these hypocrites who creates controversy for no reason.

?????? apologize

At least the immigration guy let them to answer it wrong, and still apologizing ??????

The amount of negligence that keeps going on everywhere it's everywhere and apologies but it's a complete clusterfuck

I shall have to study this when I try to emigrate... I apologized first thing in my message to the embassy.

We do not need an apology from those who don’t get the same treatment, but acknowledgment makes a difference. Who tf wants to be stalked while shopping ?! \n\nAND STOP SAYING V@GINA ??

Canada is a land with great resources, great opportunity and potential, but for a place with so much supposedly smart people they do alot of dumb things. Been here 7 years now and I have seen so many issues that have obvious solutions but because of some weird culture or heritage or whatever they just keep doing the same thing until it hurts them. The real estate market is an absolute MESS and everybody knows. Money laundering, realtors colluding to set prices, blind auctions etc you name it. But they are just gonna keep doing the same thing until the country is in a major recession. Then everybody is going to be crying for bailouts. The health system is a MESS. Trying to find a doctor is like finding a needle in a haystack. They have them driving taxis instead, claiming that their qualifications arent as good. Yet they dont have enough doctors or nurses to support anything. Coworkers whose spouses work in those industries let me know they have to be working ridiculous shifts because there are not enough people. The taxes are ridiculous. I work in I.T. and taxes are like roughly half my salary. Many coworkers have told me all the illegal stuff they do to get around the taxes. Which I don't do because I wasn't raised like that. But people get taxed so much everyone is doing some thing to try to bypass it. And if you dont know the tricks or dont want to do them, you just get screwed. People don't talk about real issues here. There is alot of fake positivity and optimism because they dont want people to get sad and suicidal from the really long and harsh winter. I used to wonder why there were so many train delays until some one explained to me that many people commit suicides in winter by stepping in front of the trains. The only thing propping up this country is the constant influx of immigrant slave labour through the college system, (Like a ponzi scheme). But the immigrants are going to stop coming here if they cant even afford to live at all. Even the regular citizens cant afford it. So what will the country do after that, since there is an elderly population and not enough people to support the industries? Right now most of the immigrants come here and save up there money to go somewhere else or back home after they realize what a shitshow it is. I even have coworkers born and raised in Canada who are telling me they want to leave. Canada needs to stop patting itself on the back for doing stupid apologies and stuff like that, and actually do economically sound things to stop digging themselves into this hole. Great potential for this country but I don't know if it will ever be realized.

Some Of The Answers Given (And Accepted) Were Wrong, The Test Giver Gave It To Them Anyway Because He Was Just Being Nice And He Was Under Justin Trudeau's Strict Orders To Allow ANY Immigrant Into The Country ?\n\nHere Are The Correct Answers:\n\n1. The Capital Of Canada Is Ottawa Which Is In Ontario, It's Not Found In Quebec Because Quebec Is Racist Due To Bill 21!\n\n2. War And Political Extremism!\n\n3. Maple Syrup!\n\n4. Maple Leaf! (Must Match The Color Of The Political Party In First Place)\n\n5. Snow!\n\n6. Hockey!\n\n7. Niagara Falls!\n\n8. Apologize And Be Polite!\n\n9. Russia! (Putin/Poutine)???\n\n10. Greenland! (North Pole)\n\n11. Caribou!\n\n12. Nunavut! But Yeah, Actually Literally None Of It!\n\n13. About! Aboot! (We Need Abot)\n\n14. **Newfoundland Accent**\n\n15. They Were All Canadian!

Good joke on apologizing

Yesterday I apologized to a mouse that hitched a ride on my car. It ran off, but I’m still sorry I took it so far from its home :(\n\nAs for Bieber… the US broke him, they bought him. No take-backs!

They are all canadian, except justin bieber. And according to meme, even canada apologize for that.

As a person living in Ireland and going through the Canadian immigration process at the moment, I can confirm these are 100% legit questions that are asked in the process. I can also confirm that the only people that apologize more than Canadians are Irish ? Apologies for that!

As a Canadian i approve, whilst at the same time i must apologize to the world for Justin Bieber & Celine Dion.

Loved all of the apologies and the Nunavut joke, but where were all of the a's? Also, no Rick Moranis references ay?

I was waiting for this eh. Love from Canada. Yes, we love to apologize as we don’t like hurting anyone even in our dreams lol\n\nI wish u were coming to Calgary.

You are going to Canada and dind´t apologize for that??? kkkkk

Brilliant! Laughed at the seal-clubbing joke, and apologize profusely. Milo, my cat, loves your doom-dahs...or at least I think he does...he always bats at the laptop screen when he hears it. Looking forward to seeing you lads in Vancouver!