Canada’s Top Minister Justin Trudeau.
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After a diplomatic row escalated between India and Canada on Tuesday over allegations of the Govt of India’s involvement within the killing of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023, Canada’s Top Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the subject in a press briefing Monday.
Within the press cope with, Trudeau subsidized up the claims made previous by way of the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Fastened Police that Canada has “compelling proof” about India’s involvement in Canada “in clandestine information-gathering ways, coercive behaviour concentrated on South Asian Canadians and involvement in a dozen threating and violating acts together with homicide.”
“Because the RCMP commissioner said previous they’ve transparent and compelling proof that brokers of the Govt of India have engaged in and proceed to interact in actions that pose a vital danger to public protection,” Trudeau mentioned. “This contains clandestine information-gathering ways, coercive behaviour concentrated on South Asian Canadians and involvement in a dozen threating and violating acts together with homicide.”
“That is unacceptable,” Trudeau persisted. Whilst makes an attempt had been made by way of the RCMP and nationwide safety officers to paintings with the Govt of India and Indian regulation enforcement opposite numbers in this subject they’ve been many times refused.
“This is the reason this weekend Canadian officers took an odd step they met with Indian officers to proportion RCMP proof which concluded six brokers of the Govt of India are individuals of hobby in legal actions.
“Regardless of repeated requests to the Govt of India, it determined to not cooperate,” he added.
Because the diplomatic escalation, Canada and India have each and every expelled six diplomats in a tit-for-tat transfer.