NEW DELHI: Canada’s most recent high commissioner, Cameron MacKay has alleged that the US indictments of Indian nationals and developments with New Delhi over the past week have confirmed that there’s a single plot to kill, which both US and Canada are probing. MacKay, who left India in Aug, said it’s “a fiasco on part of Indian govt” to think that its agents could arrange violent crimes across Canada and the US and get away with it, according to CBC News.
Canada has in the past too claimed vindication from the US charges against Indian nationals, maintaining murder-for-hire plots allegedly involving Indian govt agents in both countries are linked. “Some serious red lines were crossed and for that reason Canada has taken the strong diplomatic and law enforcement action that it has up to now,” he said.
“Indian govt’s position up until now has been to deny and vilify Canada & distract its domestic audience from real facts of what’s been happening here,” he said. Repairing diplomatic relations with Canada is “not high” on India’s agenda at the moment, MacKay said, adding it will take a “long while” before relations return to anything like normal. TNN