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India-Canada conflict: Two senior officials of Canada's Justin Trudeau government have admitted to leaking intelligence and sensitive information against India to an American newspaper.
According to a report, Trudeau's national security and intelligence adviser Natalie Drovin told a parliamentary committee that a top official of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was involved in a plot to attack Niger in Canada.
Drovin said that the Prime Minister's approval was not taken for leaking this confidential information. Actually leaking confidential information was part of the communication strategy. He and Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison ensured that a major American newspaper got the Ottawa edition of the ongoing diplomatic dispute between India and Canada.
The Prime Minister's Office had full focus on this communication strategy. Meanwhile, a report published in the Washington Post on October 13 said that India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a secret meeting with Canada's NSA in Singapore.
A parliamentary committee reprimanded Drovin and Morrison, asking why Trudeau, his cabinet ministers and the RCMP did not release the information instead of turning it over to a newspaper.
Trudeau first accused India in Parliament last year
Last year, while speaking in Parliament, Justin Trudeau had held India responsible for the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. After this diplomatic tension increased between India and Canada. Since then, relations between India and Canada have been full of ups and downs. India also accused Trudeau and his party of playing vote bank politics to woo Khalistanis.
In January this year, former Canadian National Security Advisor Jody Thomas had said that India was cooperating with Canada in the investigation of Niger's murder.
Nijjar was murdered last year
In June last year, Nijjar was shot dead outside a gurudwara in Surrey, Canada. Nijjar was a Khalistani terrorist. He was the chief of Khalistan Tiger Force. He was living in Canada for a long time and from there he was encouraging Khalistani terrorism against India.
Nijjar started providing logistics and financing to Lawrence Bishnoi gang operatives abroad. Due to which he became a headache for Indian investigative agencies in the last one year.
India declared Nijjar a terrorist
When Trudeau visited India in 2018. At that time, the then Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh had handed him a list of Khalistan terrorists, in which Nijjar's name was also included. The Union Home Ministry had declared Nijjar a terrorist in 2020.
In 2010, an FIR was registered against him in the bomb blast outside a temple in Patiala. The police was looking for him in many cases including inciting violence and promoting terrorist activities. India declared Hardeep Singh Nijjar a designated terrorist. NIA had also announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh on him.
