Just confirms what we said: India on Trudeau’s impeachment

The MEA also held Trudeau’s “cavalier behaviour” responsible for damaging India-Canada relations.

“What we heard today only confirms what we have consistently said all along: Canada has not provided us with any evidence to support the serious allegations it has leveled against India and Indian diplomats,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement. a statement. official statement last night in response to Trudeau’s comment on Wednesday.

“The responsibility for the damage this arrogant behavior has caused to India-Canada relations lies solely with Prime Minister Trudeau,” Jaiswal added.

Earlier in the day, Trudeau, testifying before Canada’s foreign interference inquiry, said India had pressed for evidence on Canada’s allegations regarding the killing of Khalistani terrorist Nijjar, but that his government had only provided intelligence, “no hard evidence”.

“Behind the scenes, India (were) trying to work with us. Their demand was… give us the evidence you have on us. Our answer was that this lies within your security services. You should investigate how much they know, you should should be involved… ‘No, no, but show us the evidence’. At that point it was mostly intelligence, not hard evidence. So we said, let’s work together…,” the Canadian Prime Minister said.

Ties between India and Canada deteriorated after Trudeau claimed in the Canadian parliament last year that he had “credible allegations” about India’s hand in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

India has denied all the allegations, calling them “absurd” and “motivated”, and accused Canada of giving space to extremist and anti-India elements in their country.
Nijjar, who was labeled a terrorist by India’s National Investigation Agency in 2020, was shot dead outside a Gurdwara in Surrey in June last year.

The recent diplomatic row erupted when Canada labeled India’s High Commissioner

and other diplomats as “persons of interest” in the investigation into Nijjar’s death.
India on Monday expelled six Canadian diplomats from the country, hours after summoning Canadian Charge d’Affaires Stewart Wheeler and saying the “unwarranted targeting” of the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats and officials in Canada was completely unacceptable.

MEA said earlier that it was underlined to the Canadian Chargé d’Affaires that in an atmosphere of extremism and violence, the actions of the Trudeau government endangered their security and that the government had decided to withdraw to Canada the Indian High Commissioner, Sanjay Kumar Verma and other intended diplomats and officials.

The Indian government said India reserves the right to take further action in response to the Trudeau government’s “support for extremism, violence and separatism against India.”