OTTAWA –  Canada’s Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez and the RCMP say an ************* is underway into what they call “threats” against Air India, after an online video warned people not to fly on the ******* on Nov. 19.

Rodriguez says in a social media post that the government takes any ****** to aviation “extremely seriously.”

He says Canada and its security partners are investigating the “recent threats circulating online,” and his press secretary confirms Rodriguez was referring to comments about Air India.

RCMP spokeswoman Kristine Kelly says ****** are collaborating with domestic and international partners and “industry stakeholders” in an ************* into the ****** against Air India flights.

The original remarks about Air India were made by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a U.S.-based organizer of unofficial referendums on **** independence, including recent votes in Surrey, B.C.

Pannun says in a video, delivered in a mix of Punjabi and English, that he’s asking Sikhs to “not fly Air India” on Nov. 19, and there will be a “global blockade” against the ******* that day.

However, Pannun says in a statement that he’s calling for a boycott of Air India and other businesses that support the Indian government.

“There is no ******,” Pannun says in his statement. “RCMP has every right to investigate a ****** ******. And if they consider that calling for boycott of Air India as a civil disobedience ? is a ******, then so be it, let them investigate.”

Nov. 19 is the final day of the cricket ***** Cup in Ahmedabad, India, an event Pannun refers to in the video as the “***** ****** Cup.”

A 2005 Canadian government report concluded that the 1985 Air India ******** that ****** 331 people were carried out as a result of a conspiracy by **** separatists that was “planned and executed” in Canada.

Only one man, **** maker Inderjit Singh Reyat, was ever convicted.

Pannun is one of the main spokesman for the **** independence movement in North America who has been among the leaders of a series of non-binding referendums held among diaspora communities asking for the establishment of an independent state within India.

Another leader of the movement, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot and ****** in June outside a **** gurdwara in Surrey, B.C.

In September, Canadian Prime Minister ************** told the House of Commons that there were “credible allegations” potentially linking India’s government to Nijjar’s *******.

Two rounds of referendum voting have been held in Surrey this year on **** independence at the same Gurdwara where Nijjar was ******, drawing thousands of voters from the community.