Canada Ties Hardeep Singh Nijjar Killing to India

Canada|Justin Trudeau Accuses India successful a Killing connected Canadian Soil

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said connected Monday that “agents of the Indian government” carried retired the sidesplitting of a Sikh assemblage person successful British Columbia past June.

Speaking successful the House of Commons, Mr. Trudeau said that helium raised India’s engagement successful the shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar straight with Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the Group of 20 acme gathering earlier this period “in nary uncertain terms.” He said the allegation was based connected quality gathered by the Canadian government.

“Any engagement of a overseas authorities successful the sidesplitting of a Canadian national connected Canadian ungraded is an unacceptable usurpation of our sovereignty,” Mr. Trudeau told lawmakers. He said Canada would unit India to cooperate with the probe into the killing.

Mélanie Joly, the overseas minister, aboriginal announced that Canada had expelled an Indian diplomat whom she described arsenic “the head” of Indian quality successful Canada.

Mr. Trudeau said that the ample assemblage of Canadians of Indian root had been angered by the sidesplitting and successful immoderate cases feared for their idiosyncratic safety. There are an estimated 1.4 to 1.8 cardinal Canadians of Indian heritage, galore of whom are Sikhs. Their numbers see Jagmeet Singh, the person of the absorption New Democratic Party, which is keeping Mr. Trudeau’s number authorities successful power.

The allegation that India’s authorities was progressive successful a calculated sidesplitting successful Canada is apt to further corrode the already strained relations betwixt the 2 countries. Earlier this month, Canada suspended negotiations connected a commercialized woody with India that were scheduled to person been concluded this year. and during the G20, Mr. Modi excluded Mr. Trudeau from the database of leaders with whom helium held ceremonial bilateral meetings.

Mr. Nijjar, 45, was changeable adjacent a Sikh temple successful Surrey, British Columbia. Investigators from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said helium was ambushed by masked men, but would not uncover whether the onslaught appeared politically motivated.

But Mr. Nijjar was known for his advocacy of the instauration of an autarkic Sikh nation, Khalistan, that would see parts of India’s Punjab state, and India had declared him a wanted terrorist.

“If these allegations are true, they correspond an outrageous affront to Canada’s sovereignty,” said Pierre Poilievre, person of the Conservative Party. “Our citizens indispensable beryllium harmless from extrajudicial killings of each kinds, astir of each from overseas governments.”