{"id":24776,"date":"2024-10-17T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=24776"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:45:22","slug":"canadian-premier-blames-india-of-making-a-horrific-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/10\/canadian-premier-blames-india-of-making-a-horrific-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian premier blames India of making a \u201chorrific mistake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Justin Trudeau has accused India of making a \u201chorrific mistake\u201d in violating Canadian sovereignty, amid an escalating diplomatic row over the murder of a Sikh separatist and allegations of a broader campaign of threats and violence against Indian exiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Testifying at a public inquiry into foreign interference, the Canadian prime minister accused Delhi of rebuffing efforts to cooperate and causing the increasingly bitter public feud that resulted in the mutual expulsion of senior diplomats, reported Guardian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWe are not looking to provoke or create a fight with India,\u201d Trudeau said. \u201cThe Indian government made a horrific mistake in thinking that they could interfere as aggressively as they did in the safety and sovereignty of\u00a0Canada. We need to respond in order to ensure Canadians\u2019 safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container \">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad--inline1\" class=\"js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1 ad-slot--rendered\" data-link-name=\"ad slot inline1\" data-name=\"inline1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CNbS26nwlIkDFUiJrAIdZgMqGA\" data-label-show=\"true\">In his most detailed remarks on the saga so far, Trudeau said Canada had not wanted to \u201cblow up\u201d its valuable relationship with India.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">His comments came in a tumultuous week in which Canadian police accused the Indian diplomats of working with a criminal network\u00a0led by a notorious imprisoned gangster\u00a0to target Sikh dissidents in the country. India has rejected the allegations as \u201cludicrous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Responding to Trudeau\u2019s comments, a spokesperson for India\u2019s ministry of external affairs said: \u201cWhat we have heard today only confirms what we have been saying consistently all along \u2013 Canada has presented us no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations that it has chosen to level against India and Indian diplomats. The responsibility for the damage that this cavalier behaviour has caused to India-Canada relations lies with Prime Minister Trudeau alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">A parliamentary public safety committee confirmed it will launch an emergency study of RCMP allegations that Indian government agents have been involved in violent crimes in Canada.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau has accused India of making a \u201chorrific mistake\u201d in violating Canadian sovereignty, amid an escalating diplomatic row over the murder of a Sikh separatist and allegations of a broader campaign of threats and violence against Indian exiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,193,982,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-india","category-international","category-politics_","category-headline"],"views":50,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24784,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions\/24784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}