Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ministers leaked confidential information to the US-based newspaper Washington Post
The deputy foreign minister and national security adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaked classified material to the Washington Post, a US newspaper, even though the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had placed an embargo on making sensitive information about India public.
David Morrison, the deputy minister at Global Affairs, the Canadian equivalent of the Indian ministry of external affairs, and Trudeau’s top national security and intelligence adviser have taken actions that contradict Trudeau’s stated feelings regarding classified information leaks, according to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, which was the first to report the development.
Prior to this, Trudeau had denounced the disclosure of confidential material to The Globe and Mail regarding China’s meddling as “a criminal act.”
However, Trudeau did not respond to the leak in India, where the Trudeau administration claimed that the Indian government was responsible for killings in Canada, not even when he spoke last week before the foreign meddling committee.
Both of Trudeau’s ministers released the material to the newspaper a week before the RCMP was supposed to make the sensitive information they had given public on Thanksgiving, which it eventually did.
On Monday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar similarly spoke about Canada’s “double standards,” but he was talking about the difference between the diplomatic immunity it grants to other countries’ envoys and the diplomatic immunity it demands.
When describing how Canada handles other diplomats and the “licence” its diplomats attempt to utilize when in India, Jaishankar said, “Double standards is a very mild word for it.”
The murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian territory last year severely strained relations between New Delhi and Ottawa.
On Monday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar similarly spoke about Canada’s “double standards,” but he was talking about the difference between the diplomatic immunity it grants to other countries’ envoys and the diplomatic immunity it demands.
When describing how Canada handles other diplomats and the “licence” its diplomats attempt to utilize when in India, Jaishankar said, “Double standards is a very mild word for it.”
The murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian territory last year severely strained relations between New Delhi and Ottawa.
