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Why Canada’s assassination allegation is everyone’s problem

Trudeau’s public outburst against India puts the Indo-Pacific coalition in a difficult spot

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has linked Indian government agents to the murder of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar (above).

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has linked Indian government agents to the murder of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar (above).

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Canada’s ties with India had dipped so low that while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the Group of 20 nations summit hosted by New Delhi earlier this month, he showed up for the obligatory photographs but skipped the dinner for world leaders.

But no one would have thought that he would return from the icy reception he got from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call out the world’s most populous nation for alleged interference activity on his home soil, and worse, the

assassination in June of an India-born Canadian

promoting Sikh separatism from his adopted country.

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