Federal government considering measures to respond to what it considers a serious violation of Canadian sovereignty, sources say
Canadian national-security authorities have what they consider credible intelligence that India was behind the mid-June fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia designated a terrorist by New Delhi and part of a separatist movement seeking an autonomous state for adherents of Sikhism.
Canada is home to about 770,000 people who reported Sikhism as their religion in the last census. Some support the Sikh independence movement, which seeks to create a sovereign homeland known as Khalistan from the state of Punjab in northern India. The Indian government fiercely opposes this.News broke Sept. 1 that Canada suspended talks on a trade deal with India, and, by mid-September, Ottawa said an early October Canadian trade mission to India has been postponed.
The Globe is not identifying the sources who were not allowed to publicly discuss the issue as they could face prosecution under the Security of Information Act. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service was circumspect when asked about India’s role in the killing. “At this time, we are postponing the coming trade mission to India,” press secretary Alice Hansen said in a statement last week. “In the next year we will be taking businesses to Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam.”
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