New Delhi: Amid the ongoing diplomatic row with India, a Canadian Opposition leader accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of trying to use the crisis to divert the attention of the public from other controversies.
Taking to X, Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada observed that while charges against the Indian diplomats were serious in nature, the Canadian Government did not come out with any proof so far.
Bernier shares message on X
“If true, allegations made by the RCMP and the Liberal government that Indian diplomats participated in criminal activities on our territory are very serious and should be dealt with. So far however, we haven’t been given any proof. And Trudeau is clearly using this crisis to divert the attention from other controversies,” Maxime Bernier wrote in a post on X.
Rubbishing the Trudeau administration’s claim that Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian citizen, he added that the latter was foreign terrorist, who should have been deported to India. Nijjar, who was a Khalistani separatist leader who was killed in Canada last year.
“One myth should be dispelled though: That the central figure in this controversy, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Khalistani militant who was murdered last year, was a Canadian. He was actually a foreign terrorist who used fraudulent documents to claim asylum in Canada several times starting in 1997. His claims were rejected but he was nevertheless allowed to stay in this country and was somehow granted citizenship in 2007,” Bernier said further.
India-Canada diplomatic row
Earlier this week, diplomatic row between both countries increased that resulted in Indian Government deciding to withdraw its High Commissioner and other targeted diplomats from Ottawa. The move came after Canada implicated the High Commissioner and other Indian diplomats in its probe in the murder of Nijjar.
