Brampton, Canada:
Amid heightened diplomatic rigidity with India, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau known as his personal intelligence officers “criminals” for linking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and International Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to violence on Canadian soil.
Addressing media in Brampton on Friday, Trudeau stated, “We’ve got seen, sadly, that criminals leaking top-secret data to the media have persistently gotten these tales fallacious.”
“That is why we had a nationwide enquiry into overseas interference, which has highlighted that criminals leaking data to media shops are unreliable on high of being criminals,” he added.
Reacting on Globe & Mail report on PM Modi, EAM, NSA, Canada PM Justin Trudeau phrases his officers ‘criminals’ for leaking data to media on Indian Management; Phrases media experiences ‘fallacious’
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The event got here after Canada, on Thursday, fact-checked and denied a report linking high Indian leaders to felony actions on Canadian soil.Â
In a press release posted on a authorities web site, Nathalie Drouin, Mr Trudeau’s intelligence adviser, stated: “The Authorities of Canada has not acknowledged, neither is it conscious of the proof, linking Prime Minister Modi, Minister Jaishankar, or NSA Doval to the intense felony exercise inside Canada. Any suggestion on the contrary is each speculative and inaccurate.”
Canada’s assertion got here after Globe and Mail newspaper printed a report this week, alleging that Canadian safety businesses believed PM Modi knew concerning the violent plots and stated Mr Jaishankar and Nationwide Safety Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval have been additionally within the loop.
Final month, The Canadian overseas ministry alleged Union Residence Minister Amit Shah was behind a marketing campaign of intimidation in Canada. Ottawa says it has proof linking Indian authorities brokers to the 2023 homicide of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who held a Canadian passport.
The ties between the 2 international locations have come underneath extreme pressure following Trudeau’s allegations in September final yr of a “potential involvement” of Indian brokers within the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who held a Canadian passport.
New Delhi rejected Trudeau’s fees as “absurd”. India has maintained that the principle problem between the 2 international locations is that of Canada giving area to pro-Khalistan components working from Canadian soil with impunity.
The row has escalated to a degree the place each international locations have expelled one another’s high diplomats.
