Travel in India: the liberals skinned for their “conspiracy theory”

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Monday, February 26, 2018 17:52

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Back in the Room Monday after the difficult trip to India from Justin Trudeau, official opposition has blasted the government for having developed a “conspiracy theory” that responsible indians are behind the invitation of a former sikh terrorist to an official reception.

“We want to have the proof. If India has made the invitation, that is placed in the House the documentation, otherwise, as the prime minister accept his responsibility and admit that he had made a blunder”, has hammered the door-to-speech, conservative in matters of public Safety, Pierre Paul-Hus.

During the question period, the official opposition has several times returned to the charge and to ask the government whether or not he had tried to sell journalists a “conspiracy theory”.

Justin Trudeau was shining by his absence in the Commons on Monday. The public Safety minister Ralph Goodale, who was not on the trip, replied to his place.

He refused to recognize the government’s attempt to show the finger at the Indians, ensuring that the security agencies canadian had done something “exceptional” in this folder.

Leaders indians blamed

The former extremist sikh Jaspal Atwal, convicted of attempted murder on an indian minister in 1986, was on the guest list to a dinner in the presence of the canadian prime minister on Thursday in Delhi. Mr. Atwal had been caught in a photo with the wife of Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, on Tuesday.

As soon as the news broke, the prime minister’s office said that the invitation had been made by the liberal mp Randeep Sarai, and she had been removed immediately after having been brought to their attention.

However, a government official has made the rounds of the media Thursday afternoon to blame, under the cover of anonymity, the incident on of the factions within the indian government who wished to interfere in Canada. The Trudeau government is accused by some indian leaders of complacency towards the separatist sikhs of the Punjab region.

According to the “Times of India”, representatives of the indian government were furious to learn that canadian officials had blamed for the incident.

Other controversies

The New democratic Party, to him, was not embarrassed to ridicule all the staging that surrounded the trip of the prime minister.

“Between the photos and his many costume changes, is this that the prime minister has raised important questions for Canada?” asked the spokesman néodémocrate in matters of foreign affairs, Hélène Laverdière, citing the issues of regional security, and tariffs on some food products.

The former diplomat, who described the journey of the “debacle”, not always explains why the government has brought a delegation of six ministers and 14 mps during eight days in India for a single ad of $ 250 million in investments.

In response, the government recalled that the investment was expected to create nearly 6,000 jobs in Canada.

For its part, the bloquiste Mario Beaulieu, is outraged by the fact that Justin Trudeau would have compared, according to a press release issued by the State of Punjab, the québec independance movement for the violent separatist sikh. “About unsightly,” he commented.

The minister Marc Garneau repeated, as his government did last Friday, that this information was false.

The Block has also claimed to know the total cost of the trip, without success.