Why Canada's Prime Minister is So Pissed off at India
The murder of a Sikh activist has strained relations between India and Canada for over a year--Trudeau finally openly cut ties.
India and Canada are no longer friends.
On Monday, Canada kicked out six top-ranking Indian diplomats, alleging that they were involved in the 2023 murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar— a Sikh-Canadian activist. He was brutally gunned down by masked men in front of a gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) in Surrey, Vancouver on June 18, 2023. India did not hold back: its foreign ministry said it was expelling Canada’s acting high commissioner and five other diplomats in response.
India and Canada have been slinging diplomatic pellets at each other for a year now—canceling trade talks, suspending visa services, recalling diplomats, and engaging in other bilateral spats. And this week, it reached an all-time high when Canada straight up accused the Indian government of murdering Nijjar.
However, Trudeau didn’t just act out of the blue, he tried to talk to Modi about Nijjar’s death at the G20 Summit in New Delhi last year but was rebuffed.
Why is Nijjar important?
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