The Carney government needs to get its story straight on foreign interference and transnational repression — especially as it relates to India. 

After this government insisted that the Indian government was cooperating with the Canadian investigation into the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and other crimes like extortion and arson, the Indian government said there was never anything to investigate in the first place. The Carney government remained silent, directly playing into the false narrative being pushed by India.

Then, prior to leaving for an international trip that included a stop in India, a Privy Council Office (PCO) official told journalists during a technical briefing that India was no longer committing any foreign interference or transnational repression, contradicting recent statements made by CSIS. Within days, the public safety minister, the foreign affairs minister and the prime minister all came out publicly to downplay the PCO official’s comments.

True to form under this government, this past week has only added more confusion. RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme went on CTV’s Question Period and told host Vassy Kapelos that the RCMP had no evidence of any clandestine activity related to foreign interference or transnational repression that can be linked back to a foreign country.

“I’m saying that based on the totality of the files that we have on foreign interference or transnational repression, what we have in our holdings is we have people that are intimidating people, harassing people — but connecting the dots to a foreign entity, regardless of the country, we don’t have that.”

So, it’s not just India that is no longer committing........

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