The Canadian prime minister’s National Security and Intelligence Advisor Nathalie Drouin has met with her Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, saying the two committed to “non-interference.”
“We discussed our respective security concerns and committed to non-interference including refraining from transnational repression,” Drouin said in a Sept. 20 statement. “We also agreed on the importance of reciprocal exchange of information and mutual responsiveness.”
The high-level meeting in India on Sept. 18 marked a further step in the rebuilding of bilateral relations between Ottawa and New Delhi. In recent years, Canada has accused agents of India of being involved in serious crimes in Canada, while India has accused the Canadian government of not cracking down on Khalistani activists who seek to carve an independent country out of India’s Punjab….