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Diplomatic Fallout Intensifies

India-Canada govt to govt ties die

Source: MEA India

India summons Canadian Charge d'Affairs and withdraws her High Commissioner and targeted diplomats 


Source:  MEA India

Prime Minister Trudeau's hostility to India has long been in evidence. In 2018, his visit to India, which was aimed at currying favour with a vote bank, rebounded to his discomfort. His Cabinet has included individuals who have openly associated with an extremist and separatist agenda regarding India. His naked interference in Indian internal politics in December 2020 showed how far he was willing to go in this regard. That his Government was dependent on a political party, whose leader openly espouses a separatist ideology vis-à-vis India, only aggravated matters

Tit for Tat: ​India expels six Canadian diplomats after withdrawing it's 

High Commissioner 

The expelled diplomats include Acting High Commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler, Deputy High Commissioner Patrick Hebert, and First Secretaries Marie Catherine Joly, Ian Ross David Trites, Adam James Chuipka, and Paula Orjuela.

They are to leave India by or before 11:59 PM Oct 19.

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