Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the latest politician calling for the federal government to designate the India-based Bishnoi Gang as a terrorist entity.

His urging came during a visit to Surrey, B.C. RCMP there announced last month it had made two arrests in an extortion investigation targeting the South Asian business community.

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Police have linked some extortion cases back to the gang, whose leader Lawrence Bishnoi is in prison in India.

Will Poilievre raise this in Parliament?

Poilievre says the Conservatives are planning to push a tough-on-crime agenda in the House of Commons, when Parliament resumes in the fall. A terror designation for the Bishnoi gang will be part of that, he promised.

The move is intended, he says, to help police and prosecutors dea

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