Canada’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Morrison, on Tuesday, alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah authorised a “campaign to intimidate or kill” Sikh separatists in Canada, according to a report by CBC.
Morrison made the remarks at aĀ Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security hearingĀ on the “electoral interference and criminal activities in Canada by agents of the Government of India.”
Canadian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison told a parliamentary panel on Tuesday that he told the Washington Post that Shah was behind the plots. “The journalist called me and asked if it (Shah) was that person. I confirmed it was that person,” Morrison told the committee without providing further details or evidence. The High Commission of India in Ottawa and the Indian foreign ministry have yet to issue a statement.
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