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Manjit Mangat, 53, a prominent lawyer and president of the temple, was stabbed in the abdomen with a kirpan, resulting in a 12-centimetre wound.
Witnesses told police at least two men brandished unsheathed kirpans outside the centre, where around 150 people had gathered.
Peel police have charged Brampton’s Sukhwant Singh, 52, with attempted murder and aggravated assault. He is expected to appear in court later this week.
The four- to six-centimetre kirpan is one of the five articles of faith for baptized Sikhs. .
The kirpan is banned in France, Denmark and some U.S. states. It is allowed in most public places throughout Canada, including schools.
The right for a student to wear a kirpan in school was upheld in 2006 after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Montreal school board’s ban of the wearing of the ceremonial dagger in school.
Canadian law will not be changed to ban kirpans because Sikhs are a very large voting block for all parties.
We Canadians will just have to live in fear of the kirpan.