New Delhi: In a big embarrassment for both himself and the Canadian government, Justin Trudeau admitted that his accusations against the Indian government in connection to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a wanted terrorist in India, were based solely on intelligence, lacking “hard evidentiary proof.”
“We only had intelligence inputs, no hard evidentiary proof”, Trudeau said while testifying before the foreign interference inquiry.
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“Canada asked India to cooperate. Their (India) ask was for proof. We asked for Indian security agencies to investigate further and cooperate with us. Because at that point what we (Canada) had was intelligence. I brought this up with Modi at the end of the G20 and I shared that we knew India was involved. He brought up that many people in Canada speak against the Indian government, and he wanted to see these people arrested,” the Canadian Prime Minister said in an epic fail from his earlier stand.
Trudeau added that when he returned to Canada from India after the G20 Summit, “it was clear that the Indian government’s approach was to criticise us and the integrity of our democracy”.
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Issuing a statement earlier, the Prime Minister said, “The evidence brought to light by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) cannot be ignored. It leads to one conclusion: it is necessary to disrupt the criminal activities that continue to pose a threat to public safety in Canada. That is why we acted. Because we will always – first and foremost – stand for the right of Canadians to feel safe and secure in their own country.”
India-Canada Standoff
The already frosty ties between India and Canada plunged further after the Justin Trudeau government attempted to link the Indian high commissioner to a probe into the killing of Sikh extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and New Delhi Monday warned action against the “concocted” allegations against its diplomat.
In a hard-hitting response, India, strongly rejecting the allegations against High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, described the charges as “preposterous imputations” and ascribes them to the “political agenda of the Trudeau government that is centred around vote bank politics”.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said India received a “diplomatic communication from Canada yesterday suggesting that the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats are ‘persons of interest’ in a matter related to an investigation in that country”.
It said India now reserves the right to take further steps in response to these “latest efforts of the Canadian government to concoct allegations against Indian diplomats”.
“Since Prime Minister Trudeau made certain allegations in September 2023, the Canadian government has not shared a shred of evidence with the Government of India, despite many requests from our side,” the MEA said.
The relations between India and Canada came under severe strain following Prime Minister Trudeau’s allegations in September last year of a “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Nijjar.
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