There was an ethnoreligious insurgency in Punjab back in the 1980s-90s [0] that also leaked into Canada with the Air India bombings, some journalist assasinations, and the future Premier (Govenor) of British Columbia getting beaten with an iron rod. There is still institutional knowledge about that in Canada, plus Police in India do still do forms of brutality, plus Gurdawaras and Sabhas still play a major role in elections in Canada - piss off the wrong Uncle and an entire Gurdawara may vote for the Conservative Party or the NDP or whoever for city elections, Provincial Parliament, or Parliament instead of you. Add to that if you "donate" to the right MLAs or Activist orgs in Punjab, you can get a referal that said person was an activist who was threatened by Militants or Landlords or Oppositions Parties or Police. A relative of mine did that in the early 2000s even though they had a decent white collar government job in Chandigarh (a very developed city in North India). Even if you get to Canada and your asylum is rejected, you can still sneak over the border and work in one of the various Indian restaurants. Lots of the cooks and servers in Punjabi owned restaurants did that here in California. We have our own social and community structures through Gurdawaras, Mandirs, Masjids, and Clans.