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Is Canada trying to pacify India after Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing?

Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was organising an unofficial independence referendum when he was shot dead [Ethan Cairns/EPA-EFE]

Two weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked a diplomatic war with India by accusing New Delhi of possible involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist leader, Ottawa’s tone appears to be shifting.

On Tuesday, Trudeau and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly indicated that they did not want to fuel tensions with India by speaking about them publicly — a sharp contrast with the open claims against India that the prime minister made in parliament.

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