Trudeau says national security institutions are pursuing ‘credible’ allegations.
Mourners carry the casket of Hardeep Singh Nijjar during Antim Darshan, the first part of a day-long funeral service for him, in Surrey, B.C., on June 25, 2023. | Darryl Dyck/The Canadian PressCanada is expelling a top Indian diplomat in the wake of bombshell allegations that agents from India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced Monday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an urgent address to lawmakers in Parliament Monday afternoon informing them Canada’s security agencies have been pursuing for weeks “credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India” and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar earlier this summer on Canadian soil.
Nijjar, a British Columbia Sikh leader part of a separatist movement and designated a terrorist by New Delhi,“We’ve been clear we will not tolerate any form of foreign interference,” Joly told reporters.
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