Toronto: Amid strained diplomatic relations between India and Canada, in a major update, top official of the Trudeau government has confirmed the reports of sharing sensitive intel about India to a leading US publication. The Feputy Foreign Minister of Canada, David Morrison has shockingly accepted these reports.
Canadian Official Confirms Sharing Sensitive Intel About India to US Media
Top Canadian govt official David Morisson has confessed to leaking intelligence and sensitive information against India to the US publication, The Washington Post. During his speech, David Morrison said, “Within our strategy, we were talking to different audiences and so we deliberately chose, as Madame Durand said in her introductory remarks, ‘a credible, internationally-read newspaper that would carry our side of the story.’ We chose a journalist who had a long record of background in this particular issue and had written on it a number of times before.”
He further said, “And through the Washington Post, we were speaking directly to our friends in the United States. (0:40) We were speaking to our allies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. (0:46) And we were also speaking directly to Indians.”
‘Was This Step to Compel US to Back Up Canada?’
David Morrison accepted that by sharing this information via The Washington Post, Canada wanted to ensure that all those countries who ‘shared similar concerns from the beginning’ were on Canada’s side amid the ongoing India-Canada diplomatic tensions. On being asked if this ‘leak or non-leak’ was an effort to get Americans on board for the Canadian perspective and be compelled to back up Canada amid its ongoing tensions with India, David Morrison said, “What I would say is that we approached this whole series of events, including our approach that we adopted in going to Singapore. We were talking to our closest allies who share similar concerns from the beginning.”
This shocking acceptance comes ahead of meeting with NSA Ajit Doval in Singapore to target audience in US, UK and India, to basically to set a narrative against India.
India’s Sensitive Info Leaked to US Media by Canada?
A Canadian daily, citing two sources, alleged that Nathalie Drouin and David Morrison gave a briefing on India’s interference operations in Canada to The Washington Post in the week before Thanksgiving. The media outlet further claimed that the intelligence was not to be reported until RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme held a news conference on Thanksgiving Day. However, a spokesperson for Drouin and Morris has dismissed any classified information was shared, according to the English daily.
“None of the information in the public domain that has been reported on is the result of classified intelligence,” Privy Council media official Daniel Savoie said in a statement. “In regard to questions about additional serious violence, we would refer you to the unsealed U.S. indictment from November 2023 which identified plans to carry out three killings within Canada.”
On the same day as the briefing, The Post had reported, based on information from Canadian officials, that Ottawa had linked India with the murder of Sukhdool Singh Gill alias Sukha Duneke, an alleged ally of the Bambiha gang, who was shot dead in Winnipeg on September 20, 2023. This murder occurred just two days after publicly accused India of killing Nijjar in Surrey in British Columbia. As per media reports, Sukhdool’s killing came less than a day after he was featured in a wanted list of gangsters posted on X by the NIA.
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