Canada has expelled an Indian diplomat over revelations detailed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canadian national-security authorities have credible intelligence that “agents of the government of India” carried out the mid-June fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia.
Mr. Nijjar, whom New Delhi designated a terrorist, was part of a separatist movement seeking an autonomous state for adherents of Sikhism.
Mr. Trudeau said he informed opposition leaders before telling Canadians of India’s involvement in the slaying, which he said he raised personally “in no uncertain terms” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi last week.
He made the announcement in the House of Commons one day after the Prime Minister’s Office learned that The Globe and Mail planned to publish the story based on national-security sources.
“Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” Mr. Trudeau said.
“Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.”
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