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India and Canada expelled six of each others' diplomats in tit-for-tat moves after Ottawa accused Indian government agents of links to the 2023 murder of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver.
In 2023, bilateral trade between India and Canada was valued at $9.36 billion with the Indian exports to Canada worth $5.56 billion and Canadian exports to India valued at $3.80 billion. [26] In July 2024, India accounted for 0.74% ($0.74 billion) of Canada's total trade of $99.04 billion and Canada accounted for 0.82% of India's total trade of ...
Relations between India and Canada have suffered since Ottawa accused the Indian high commissioner and other top diplomats of being directly involved in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
India's government claimed Canada had "not shared a shred of evidence" since September 2023, when Trudeau made the initial allegations of Indian agents being involved in Nijjar's murder.
Canada has the largest Sikh population outside India. [15] Sikhs who number 770,000, account for nearly 2 percent of Canada's population. [16] Some Sikhs living in Canada are prominent members of the Khalistan movement, which advocates for a separation from India to create an independent Sikh homeland.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said India made "a horrific mistake" by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada's sovereignty.
The 1969 White Paper (officially entitled Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy) was a policy paper proposal set forth by the Government of Canada related to First Nations. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs , Jean Chrétien , issued the paper in 1969.
India responded hours later by rejecting Trudeau’s allegations, accusing Canada of harboring terrorists and claiming its inaction against extremists had been a “long-standing” concern.