An investigation is underway into what Canada’s transport minister and the RCMP call “threats” against Air India, after an online video warns people not to fly on the airline on Sunday, Nov. 19. Pablo Rodriguez says Canada and its security partners are investigating “recent threats circulating online,” referring to comments about Air India.

The original remarks about Air India were made by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US-based organizer of unofficial referendums on Sikh independence, including recent votes in Surrey, BC.

Pannun says in a video that he’s asking Sikhs to “not fly Air India” on Nov. 19, and there will be a “global blockade” against the airline 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.

Pannun is one of the main spokesmen for the Sikh independence movement, and was the lawyer for another leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead in BC in June in a killing Canada’s government has linked to India.

Pannun says he doesn’t mind if police investigate him, but he considers calling for a boycott an act of civil disobedience, not terrorism.

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

RCMP spokeswoman Kristine Kelly says police are collaborating with domestic and international partners and “industry stakeholders” in an investigation into the threat.

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