FBI Offers USD 1M for Information on Goldy; Carney Deprioritizes Safety for Canadians

September

2026

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has offered USD 1M for information leading to the arrest of Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi crime syndicate. The US law enforcement agency has added Goldy to its 'most-wanted' fugitive list for his alleged role in a spate of gang-linked crimes including murders, kidnappings, extortions, assaults, and drug trafficking. Goldy is also involved in the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, in June 2023. Canada's former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the issue, which strained the relationship between trading partners India and Canada. However, Canada’s new PM Mark Carney has focused on rebuilding the relationship and has deprioritized the safety risk to Canadians. In a recent interview, Carney said there was 'some evidence' that the renewed relationship he’s charting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to 'progress' on improving the security of Canadians. When asked if he could assure Canadians that the Indian government would no longer be linked to crimes such as arson, extortion, blackmail, harassment, and even murder, he said no. Carney’s pronouncement acknowledges that Canada cannot claim to control the actions of a foreign government at all times, even on Canadian soil. An assistant professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Amarnath Amarasingam, who researches radicalization and transnational repression, said various minority ethnic groups in Canada—such as Sikhs, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Chinese, and Iranian dissidents—have long complained that the government doesn’t do enough to protect them from foreign threats. A comment like Carney’s reinforces the sense that Ottawa views these threats as foreign, not domestic. He said, 'One of the take-home messages is that Canada isn’t treating this as a kind of Canadian problem, right? It’s treating it almost as this diaspora problem or as a problem of ‘imported conflict’ or as a problem of ‘people not leaving their politics back home’. It is not being treated with the seriousness it deserves.' The Indian government's involvement in transnational repression will almost certainly be discussed when India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Canada before the end of 2026, reportedly to sign his name on a new bilateral trade deal. For many Sikh activists and targets of India’s scorn in Canada, Carney’s rapprochement with India has had little to no effect on their safety. If anything, they fear the Carney government is taking the threat less seriously (earlier coverage).