Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb

If anyone is wondering how Canada’s Prime Minister Mr. Justin Trudeau suddenly became very sympathetic towards Sri Lanka Tamils and even emphasized the term ‘Genocide’ towards his parlance and coined it with what he termed the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka which is a downright misrepresentation of facts, here then is what appears to be the sudden empathy by Mr. Trudeau towards Sri Lanka Tamils where the source for all his rhetoric could more than likely be his ties and close associations with Sri Lanka born Anandasangaree named here whom he has suddenly chosen as a new Cabinet Minister.

There are others too of Sri Lankan origin both in the past and present who can also be named with political links who have contributed towards bringing disrepute to Sri Lanka purely for political objectives relative to the Tamil conflict whose representations have proven to be unacceptable by the Government of Sri Lanka due to their distorted nature and probably will not hold up in an international court of justice..

Perhaps no rocket science needed to draw this conclusion as the name Anandsangaree seems synonymous with the somewhat  controversial group in Sri Lanka the TULF with links to the Tamil Tigers. the TNA and the deposed LTTE who  in their continued attempts to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka globally and have never let off on their campaign to dishonour and discredit and surely Mr.Trudeau seems to have picked up their tune and has even started dancing to it with aplomb albeit slightly out of tune and step and not applauded by those who know the real story as a remarkable falsification and distortion of facts and reality simply to serve their own objectives.

While the news is that Sri Lankan born Tamil MP Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed as a Cabinet Minister in the Canadian Government it also brings to bear that.

Gary Anandasangaree is the son of former MP and Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) leader Veerasingham Anandasangaree a veritable trouble maker who has a reputation for his incongruous political involvements with the GOSL.

Anandasangaree Jr. was among seven rookie MPs who have been promoted to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet following a major reshuffling on Wednesday.

Gary Anandasangaree was first elected in 2015 as the MP for the Toronto riding of Scarborough-Rouge Park.

On Wednesday, he was sworn in as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, a position previously held by Marc Miller.

Anandasangaree had previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister, as well as to the Justice and Heritage Ministers.

Born in Sri Lanka, he arrived in Canada with his mother in 1983.

Anandasangaree holds degrees from Carleton University in Ottawa and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

He managed a law firm in Scarborough that focused on business, real estate and international human rights law, and has represented the organization Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada at the United Nations.

He has also been involved with Tamil community organizations which realistically continue lobbying and protesting against the Sri Lanka Government actions against the  deposed Tamil terrorist  led internal armed insurrection which has  never been proven as unjustified as it was in defense of sovereign territory and the integrity towards the preservation of Sri Lanka which took 3 1/2 decades to overcome.

It also needs to be noted that In March 2023, Mr. Anandasangaree made the news for unsavoury comments he made on Sri Lanka, calling it “a failed and bankrupt state.” which he obviously knew little or nothing about beyond perhaps the tones of dissention of his parental peers, and is some gratitude for the land he was born and educated in  where his father continues to ply his trade as a wayward politician always involved in anti governmental dissent and still campaigning for the secession of Sri Lanka and a resurgence of their bridge too far namely Tamil Eelam and the Tamil Tigers.which Canadian PM Trudeau is perhaps inadvertently supportive of  despite ironically being outlawed in Canada and has made himself an accessory against Sri Lanka’s right to defend herself against her enemies while accolading their activities in Canada.

Surely the proof  in the pudding for Mr Trudeau’s empathy towards Tamil platforms against Sri Lanka despite the good diplomatic ties between the two countries..