
Carney defends decision to restore diplomacy with India, calls it ‘foundational’
OTTAWA — Reinstating key diplomats in Canada and India is a “foundational” step toward restoring the relationship between the two countries, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.
But Carney still refused to say whether he raised the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Alberta on Tuesday.
Several Sikh organizations, including Sikhs for Justice, have called on the prime minister to be more transparent about what India is doing to co-operate with police investigations here, including the probe into the 2023 murder of Nijjar, a Sikh separatist activist.
“I never make it a policy to give a line-by-line transcript readout of exactly what’s said in a meeting, and I’m not about to start now,” Carney told a press conference on Parliament Hill.