India and Canada Expel Each Other’s Diplomats

Exchange Accusations With Charged Rhetoric as Bilateral Relations Reach the Lowest Point Yet

After a cooling down period, the tensions between Canada and India appear to again have spiraled down beyond the point of no return with the mutual expulsion of diplomats and charged rhetoric from side to side.

To begin with, Canada expelled India’s high commissioner and five envoys in the wake of Canada’s national police revealing the possession of evidence linking members of India’s government ‘to multiple homicides and other violent acts on Canadian soil’.

As a response, India will recall its top diplomat in Canada and announced the expulsion of six Canadian diplomats.

Politico reported:

“’The evidence brought to light by the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] cannot be ignored’, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday (14) afternoon. ‘We cannot abide by what we’re seeing right now. Canada fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. We expect the Indian government to do the same for Canada’.”

Canada’s Mounted Police said this evidence constitutes a ‘significant threat to public safety’ in the country, in special to members of the Khalistan movement.

“’We felt it was imperative to confront the government of India and inform the public about some very serious findings uncovered through our investigations’, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Mike Duheme said during a news conference Monday. ‘Indian diplomats and consular officials based in Canada leveraged their official positions to engage in clandestine activities such as collecting information for the government of India, either directly or through their proxies’, he said.”

Few details were provided about these imminent violent acts, or about diplomatic involvement in criminal acts.

Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn hasn’t been able to present evidence of Indian agents involved in serious criminal activity to top Indian law enforcement.

“Last fall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shocked the nation when he revealed in Parliament that Canada had uncovered evidence that agents of India may have been involved in the killing of Sikh Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down in June 2023 near a gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia.”

Bilateral relations never recovered and are now, once again, at their lowest point over this alleged foreign interference.

“’Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday that the decision to expel the diplomats was based on “ample, clear and concrete evidence’ that identified six individuals of interest to the Nijjar case.”

full story at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/india-canada-expel-each-others-diplomats-exchange-accusations/

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