Government-funded film glorifies assassin of Canadian immigration officer
A government-funded film portraying the 1914 assassination of Canadian immigration officer William Hopkinson has sparked concern over its depiction of the killer, Mewa Singh, as a martyr.
A government-funded film portraying the 1914 assassination of Canadian immigration officer William Hopkinson has sparked concern over its depiction of the killer, Mewa Singh, as a martyr.
The film, Guru Nanak Jahaz, dramatizes the fatal courthouse shooting of Hopkinson by Singh in Vancouver on October 21, 1914.
