Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeauthis Monday, the country’s intelligence services Involving Indian officials in the murder Canada From a leader of the Sikh community.
“A foreign government’s involvement in the murder of a Canadian on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” he said in a speech to the Lower House of the Canadian Parliament.
Following Trudeau’s statement, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs said: Melanie Jollyannounced that one person was deported”key diplomat” indianthe person in charge of Indian intelligence in the country.
Canada “will not tolerate any form of interference” and the Government “will protect Canada’s sovereignty“, caught.
The Prime Minister added that Canada had “expressed its deep concerns to the highest security and government officials in India.” Murder of Hardeep Singh NijjarIt happened last June in the western Canadian town of Surrey.
Singh Nijjar, who was shot by unidentified assailants in the parking lot of a Sikh temple, was accused of terrorism by Indian authorities for advocating the establishment of Khalistan, an independent country for the Sikh minority in the state of Punjab.
Trudeau informed the country’s top political leaders on Monday of Canadian intelligence services’ conclusions that India was involved in the assassination and said he had requested an explanation from his Indian counterpart, Narendra, during the G20 summit held in India on September 9 and 10. Modi.
“In the most energetic way possible, “I advise the Government of India to cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter.”Describing what happened as “extremely serious”, the president said:
On September 1, the Canadian Government announced that negotiations to sign a free trade agreement with India were suspended without explaining the reason. Canada also canceled its trade mission to India This was supposed to be done in October.
Approximately 1.8 million people of Indian origin live in Canada, of whom approximately 770,000 are Sikhs. Leader of the social democratic New Democratic Party (NPD), jagmeet singhThe fourth party in the Canadian Parliament is Sikh.