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Trudeau tempers criticism as allies decline to condemn India over slain Sikh leader
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not want to escalate tensions further with India, on a day when Canada’s allies showed signs they are unwilling to join Ottawa’s public condemnation of New Delhi for its alleged role in the gangland-style slaying of a prominent Canadian Sikh leader.
Despite these efforts, the United States, Britain and other allies have declined to criticize publicly the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which they see as a counterweight to China and a huge economic market of more than one billion people.
Weeks before the Prime Minister made the bombshell accusation in the House of Commons on Monday, Ottawa asked its allies to publicly condemn the slaying and they refused to do so, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
“The claim reported in the Washington Post that Canada asked Allies to publicly condemn the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and were subsequently rebuffed, are false,” Emily Williams, press secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, said in an e-mailed statement.
In an exchange with reporters Tuesday, Mr. Trudeau said the government had worked closely with Canadian intelligence agencies over the summer as they gathered evidence on India’s alleged role in the mid-June slaying of Mr. Nijjar, who was gunned down in a parking lot of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C.
Former Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Richard Fadden, who also served as national-security adviser to Mr. Trudeau and his predecessor Stephen Harper, said Canada should suspend intelligence-sharing or co-operation with India.
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