The Canadian Safety Intelligence Service, the nation’s highest overseas intelligence company, has alleged that India had probably interfered within the nation’s election in a current intelligence report. The report accessed by the media on Thursday named India as a ‘overseas interference menace’ and said that the federal government “should do extra to guard Canada’s sturdy democratic establishments and processes.”
The highest-secret briefing report obtained by Canadian media International Information additionally said that India’s interference would worsen if not intervened.
That is the primary time India has been accused of election interference in Canada. China and Russia have been already going through fees of meddling in Canadian politics.
The declassified doc, titled ‘Briefing to the Minister of Democratic Establishments on Overseas Interference,’ dated February 24, 2023, additionally names China and calls it “by far probably the most important menace.”
“The PRC’s FI actions are broad in scope and important within the degree of expended sources. The actions are important, pervasive, and directed in opposition to all ranges of presidency and civil society throughout the nation,” the report states.
FI refers to overseas interference and PRC stands for Folks’s Republic of China.
India and China have been the one two international locations recognized by their identify within the newest intelligence report.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered an enquiry into the allegations made within the newly launched intelligence report.
The ties between India and Canada got here below extreme pressure following Trudeau’s September 2023 allegations of “potential” involvement of Indian brokers within the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18 in British Columbia. India has dismissed the allegations as “absurd” and “motivated.”
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