World Sikh News wel­comes Cana­dian Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau, his fam­ily, his cab­i­net col­leagues, mem­bers of Par­lia­ment, Cana­dian me­dia team in­clud­ing Pun­jabi me­dia per­sons to the Pun­jab.

Jee Aayan Nu! Wel­come!! Bi­en­v­enue!!!

The World Sikh News wel­comes:

Cana­dian Prime Min­is­ter Justin Pierre James Trudeau, his wife So­phie Gre­goire Trudeau, ten-year-old son Xavier James Trudeau, nine-year-old Ella-Grace Mar­garet and three-year-old Hadrien;

Mem­bers of the Cana­dian Cab­i­net: For­eign Min­is­ter Chrys­tia Free­land, Min­is­ter for Na­tional De­fence Har­jit Singh Saj­jan, Sci­ence and Eco­nomic De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Navdeep Singh Bains, Sci­ence and Sports Min­is­ter Kirsty Dun­can, In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Amar­jit Singh Sohi and Small Busi­ness and Tourism Min­is­ter Bardish Kaur Chag­ger;

18 Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment in­clud­ing Raj Singh Gre­wal, Ruby Sa­hota and oth­ers

35-mem­ber me­dia del­e­ga­tion in­clud­ing 5 Pun­jabi jour­nal­ists Sat­pal Singh Jo­hal, Jagdish Gre­wal, Bill Sandhu, Ran­jit Sidhu and Rishar Na­gar.

When you will all set foot in Am­rit­sar, you will touch the soul of the Sikh peo­ple. The joy and glory that you bring with your bub­bling smile, the cheer­ing pho­to­graph of your cab­i­net col­leagues and par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, your obei­sance at Dar­bar Sahib will stay em­bed­ded in Sikh hearts!

WEL­COME TO THE PUN­JAB!!

Wel­come to the Pun­jab.
Wel­come to the land of five rivers -Punj-ab.
Wel­come to the land of the Gu­rus, Pirs and Fakirs.
Wel­come to the home­land of the Sikh na­tion.
Wel­come to Am­rit­sar -the spir­i­tual cap­i­tal of the Sikh peo­ple.
Wel­come to Am­rit­sar -the land of Dar­bar Sahib, also known as The Golden Tem­ple.
Wel­come to Akal Takht Sahib -the re­li­gio-po­lit­i­cal high seat of the Sikh na­tion.
Wel­come to the land of faith, tol­er­ance and equal­ity.
Wel­come to the Pun­jab -the first home of the Sikhs, the sec­ond be­ing Canada.
Wel­come to the Pun­jab -the cra­dle of Sikh civil­i­sa­tion.
Wel­come to the Pun­jab -once an in­de­pen­dent coun­try, whose bor­ders ex­tended from Jam­raudh in Afghanistan to Delhi in the In­dian sub-con­ti­nent and was an­nexed by the British in 1849.

Wel­come to Pun­jab where 468,670 Sikh Cana­di­ans iden­tify with their roots.
Wel­come to Pun­jab from where four min­is­ters of your cab­i­net and 17 par­lia­men­tar­i­ans hail from.
Wel­come to Pun­jab which has an im­mense sense of be­long­ing for ju­rists se­lected for Cana­dian Supreme Courts and other courts.

THANK YOU, CANADA

Thank you, Canada for the im­mense trust re­posed in Sikhs in var­i­ous vo­ca­tions and high po­lit­i­cal life.
Thank you, Canada, for your coun­try’s prac­ti­cal mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, jus­tice and fair play.
Thank you, Canada and Cana­di­ans, for ac­cept­ing Sikh Cana­di­ans into all walks of life.
Thank you, Canada, for per­mit­ting Sikhs to wear their Kir­pan in in­ter­nal flights.
Thank you, Canada, for al­low­ing Sikh play­ers to par­tic­i­pate in many sports with all of their Sikh gear.
Thank you, Canada, for your whole­hearted apol­ogy for what should not have hap­pened nearly a 100 years ago.
Thank you, Canada, for elect­ing a Sikh as the Prime Min­is­te­r­ial can­di­date.
Thank you, Canada, for build­ing parks and gar­dens in mem­ory of Sikh hu­man rights ac­tivists and Sikh stal­warts in Cana­dian pub­lic life.

Thank you, Canada, for af­ford­ing the full right to free­dom of speech to all in­clud­ing re­sist­ing the pres­sures of many coun­tries in­clud­ing In­dia who like to in­ter­fere in the af­fairs of other coun­tries but can­not tol­er­ate the same when re­turned in the same coin.

As Canada wel­comes thou­sands of Sikhs -ed­u­cated and the less ed­u­cated in var­i­ous spheres and pro­fes­sions, as it makes a liv­ing in far-flung ar­eas of Canada more con­ducive for im­mi­grants, as a size­able num­ber of Sikhs con­tinue to leave the shores of their home­land and set­tle in Canada, his­tory has a lot in store for Sikhs in Canada. I have no doubt that Sikh Cana­di­ans will set the bench­mark for other Di­as­pora Sikhs to fol­low in the UK, USA, the Pa­cific coun­tries and else­where. If the path of the last 100 years is any in­di­ca­tion, Canada will be prouder of Sikh Cana­di­ans more than ever be­fore in the times to come.

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Sikhs are known for their love, ser­vice to hu­mankind, re­li­gios­ity, al­le­giance and an­swer­abil­ity to God Almighty and no earthly power, tol­er­ance, hard work, fair play and val­our.

Just as Canada has trusted the Sikhs, surely Canada can al­ways count on the Sikhs! Rab Rakha!!