India’s Foreign Affairs Minister accused Canada of welcoming criminals from his country in response to the RCMP’s recent arrests in a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.
Nijjar was a fervent activist for the creation of a Sikh homeland called Khalistan, and his death sparked a wave of protests and rallies against Indian diplomats in Canada.Those protests reached particular intensity after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused New Delhi last September of playing a role in the homicide.
Jaishankar responded to both questions by saying the governing Liberals and other, unspecified political parties “pander” to Sikh separatists for votes, and “have given these kinds of extremism, separatism, advocates of violence a certain legitimacy in the name of free speech.” “These are wanted criminals from India; you have given them visas … and yet you allow them to live there.”
In February, a senior Canadian foreign-service bureaucrat told MPs that Canadian officials have been offering their Indian counterparts “workshops” on the rule of law, because India’s definition of terrorism “does not always compute in our legal system.”In his remarks Saturday, Jaishankar also said “there will be pushback” to calls for Khalistan separation, but he didn’t specify where that may come from.“It’s no longer a world which runs as a one-way street,” he said.
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