Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday (native time) mentioned that he feels there’s “a tonal shift” in India-Canada relations because the United States warned New Delhi in regards to the involvement of an Indian national in an alleged plot to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Canadian broadcaster CBC reported.

Trudeau acknowledged India could realise now that “they can’t bluster their way through this”.

“I think there is a beginning of an understanding that they can’t bluster their way through this and there is an openness to collaborating in a way that perhaps they were less open before,” the CBC quoted the Canadian Prime Minister.

Trudeau added, “There’s an understanding that maybe, maybe just churning out attacks against Canada isn’t going to make this problem go away.”

He additionally emphasised that Canada doesn’t need to interact in a “fight with India right now over this” and burdened the significance of “standing up for people’s safety and the rule of law”.

“We want to be working on that trade deal. We want to be advancing the Indo-Pacific strategy. But it is foundational for Canada to stand up for people’s rights, for people’s safety, and for the rule of law. And that’s what we’re going to do,” Trudeau mentioned.

On November 29, the US Justice Department charged a 52-year-old Indian nationwide, Nikhil Gupta, with involvement in an alleged murder plot towards Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who’s an American citizen.

India responded swiftly stating that any such act is “contrary to government policy” and introduced a high-level probe into the matter.

In September of this 12 months, Trudeau knowledgeable the Canadian parliament that the nation’s companies had been investigating the involvement of Indian brokers within the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was a Canadian citizen.

India dismissed the allegations as “absurd” and “motivated“, resulting in an unprecedented diplomatic disaster between the 2 nations.