Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated that his assertion on September 18 within the House of Commons about “credible allegations” linking Indian brokers to the killing of pro-Khalistan determine Hardeep Singh Nijjar was meant to discourage New Delhi from persevering with such actions within the nation.

In an interview with the company Canadian Press, Trudeau stated, “We felt that all the quiet diplomacy and all the measures that we put in, and ensured that our security services put in to keep people safe in the community, needed a further level of deterrence, perhaps of saying publicly and loudly that we know, or we have credible reasons to believe, that the Indian government was behind this.”

He added, “And, therefore, put a chill on them continuing or considering doing anything like this.”

He stated the assertion was made as a result of “too many Canadians were worried that they were vulnerable.”

Trudeau additionally indicated Canada will reveal proof behind the allegations of the Indian connection to Nijjar’s killing on June 18 in Surrey, however later. Referring to the indictment in a US Federal Court of an Indian nationwide to an alleged plot to kill Sikhs for Justice or SFJ normal counsel Gurpatwant Pannun and why Canada has not made comparable data public, Trudeau stated, “Canada is investigating a murder and there are different stakes involved in that and our justice system has different processes.” But, he stated, that was “unfolding.”

India has constituted a high-level into the American fees, however dismissed comparable requests from Ottawa. India has argued the US has supplied it with particular inputs and Canada hasn’t. As External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated, “So the question of equitable treatment to two countries, one of whom has provided inputs and one of whom has not, does not arise.”

Trudeau additionally stated he had raised the Nijjar concern when he met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a bilateral throughout the G20 summit in New Delhi in September, however that didn’t show to be a constructive dialog.

He additionally accused India of launching an data conflict. “They chose to attack us and undermine us with a scale of misinformation and disinformation in their media that was comical,” he stated.