Ottawa

Amid the India-Canada standoff, the Canadian Prime Minister on Monday claimed that he had made public allegations against India in the killing of Hardeep Nijjar as there was a need to put a ‘chill on India’ in light of what was being reported in India, source reported. Trudeau was speaking to the Canadian press in a year-end interview on Monday.

Trudeau noted that he made the announcement on September 18 because he expected that information would be eventually leaked though the media. He asserted that he wanted Canadians to know the government was on top of the situation

Too many Canadians were worried that they were vulnerable, Trudeau said in the interview this week, adding the Sikh community in B.C. had been raising concerns since shortly after Nijjar was killed.

We felt that all the quiet diplomacy and all the measures that we put in and ensured that our security services put in to keep people safe in the community needed a further level of deterrence, perhaps of saying publicly and loudly that we know, or we have credible reasons to believe, that the Indian government was behind this, he said. And therefore put a chill on them continuing or considering doing anything like this. The allegations made by the Canadian Prime Minister had been out rightly rejected by India’s Ministry of External Affairs which had dubbed them absurd and motivated. According to source, Truedau on Monday also claimed that the Indian government chose to attack and undermine them with misinformation after he had made the allegations public.