TRUDEAU'S FOREIGN POLICY DETERMINED BY SELF-INTEREST

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a desperate man. He is under scrutiny for being inactive against Chinese interference in Canada’s elections, substantive proof of which exists.

- Joyeeta Basu

Ahead of Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission hearing, he once again latched on to India by accusing New Delhi of the gravest of crimes, including gun violence in his country, when it is actually the Chinese that are having a free run by turning Canada into a gateway to the West for narcotics. Plus they are believed to have infiltrated every level of government, rising right up to the top. Canada’s move to declare the Indian high commissioner and other diplomats “persons of interest” in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, including the plan to strip them of their diplomatic immunity and treat them as common criminals was the last straw that led India to recall them. But then to manage the narrative at home and give the impression of functioning from a position of strength, the Trudeau government said that it was they who had expelled the Indian diplomats. As if this was not enough, further threats were issued by Trudeau’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, that the option of expelling the remaining Indian diplomats was on the table. And all these threats to a fellow democracy, in fact the world’s largest. Thus, Canada is breaching all norms of civilised behaviour.After making the dramatic charge against Sanjay Verma, the former Indian high commissioner to Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is