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Sajjan defends request to use soldiers as backdrop for Diljit Dosanjh concert

Sajjan endorsed request because Dosanjh 'is the biggest Punjabi artist in the world,' spokesperson says

CBC NewsPeter Zimonjic

Canada's emergency preparedness minister is defending an official request he made to use Canadian soldiers as a backdrop for a concert by Punjabi pop star Diljit Dosanjh, one of India's biggest actors and singers.

As first reported in The Globe and Mail, Harjit Sajjan received a letter mid-April asking if Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members would participate in Dosanjh's show in Vancouver on April 27. 

According to a statement from Sajjan's office, the minister then forwarded the request "along w…

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