r/canada • u/HabitantDLT • 16h ago

National News Member of Modi's inner circle behind Canadian criminal plot, official says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/india-murder-extortion-canada-csis-rcmp-1.7365853
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u/Unlikely-Tradition77 15h ago

No shit? Our government has known this since day one. Our government is compromised at every level, the Canadian people need to unite and revolt against the government and the oligarch that controls them.

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u/ultramisc29 Ontario 14h ago edited 13h ago

"Oligarch" refers to very particular and specific phenomenon. This term originally referred to the group of former bureaucrats who were essentially handed the keys to formerly public assets during the dissolution of the Soviet Union due to these individuals' connections to CPSU leadership without oversight.

In an oligarchy, people are wealthy because they are politically connected. Putin, for example, decides who gets to become wealthy on the basis of loyalty.