Indian diplomats in Canada are ‘clearly on notice,’ Joly warns

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Indian diplomats successful Canada are “on notice” aft she was asked whether much expulsions could travel amid the diplomatic enactment betwixt India and Canada.

“They’re intelligibly connected notice,” Joly said successful effect to the question, speaking of different Indian diplomats pursuing the expulsion of six earlier this week.

“Clearly we won’t tolerate immoderate diplomats that are successful contravention of the Vienna Convention and intelligibly immoderate diplomats from immoderate state from astir the satellite that would beryllium putting the lives of Canadians astatine risk.”

Joly’s comments travel conscionable days aft some countries expelled each other’s diplomats connected Monday, with Ottawa having done truthful “in narration to a targeted run against Canadian citizens by agents linked to the authorities of India.”

Global News has learned agents moving retired of India’s precocious committee successful Ottawa and consulates successful Vancouver and Toronto were allegedly down dozens of convulsive crimes crossed Canada that targeted opponents of the Narendra Modi government.

Although connected insubstantial they held diplomatic and consular positions, the Indian agents allegedly played cardinal roles successful a question of shootings, killings, threats, arsons and extortions successful Canada, according to elder sources acquainted with the matter.

The victims were mostly supporters of the Khalistan movement, which seeks independency for India’s Sikh-majority Punjab region. But others were simply rivals of the government, the sources said.

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The revelations came arsenic Canadian instrumentality enforcement continues to probe the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar successful Surrey, B.C., wherever the killers were allegedly linked to the Indian government.

Making the allegations nationalist was an “extraordinary measure” by the RCMP, Joly said connected Friday, adding that the alleged actions by India were thing not seen earlier successful Canadian history.

“That level of transnational repression cannot hap connected Canadian soil,” she said. “We’ve seen it elsewhere successful Europe, Russia has done that successful Germany and the U.K., but we needed to basal steadfast connected this issue.”