The unease brewing in India-Canada relations, now at its possible lowest, was laid bare for the public as Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau cited “credible intelligence” in the country’s parliament to allege the role of the Indian government’s agents in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar “on Canadian soil” in June this year.
The Khalistan Tiger Force chief, designated “terrorist” by the Indian government in July 2020, was referred to as a “Sikh separatist leader” and “Canadian citizen” by Trudeau – the juxtaposition at the core of the geopolitical storm.
