Another source of embarrassment to Canada on the occasion of the visit of Justin Trudeau in India

News 25 February, 2018

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Sunday, 25 February 2018 13:29

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NEW DELHI | controversy has followed the prime minister Justin Trudeau until the end of his recent official visit to India suggest an article and a video published by local media Saturday.

The tv channel Times Now and one of its suppliers of news, The Times of India, reported that the map of India which has been displayed on the stage of the conclave 2018 youth leaders of change, New Delhi, during a speech by Mr. Trudeau, a Saturday, was not fair. It was the last public activity of an official of the canadian prime minister in India.

According to these two media, the map does not represent correctly the State of Jammu and Kashmir which is the subject of a territorial dispute between India, Pakistan and China, showing not the whole of what is called in India the “Kashmir occupied by Pakistan”.

However, we read on the website of Times Now, “India has firmly maintained that the Kashmir occupied by Pakistan is a part of India and that it was invaded by Pakistan”. “The distortion of the map presents itself as a nuisance policy for the canadian government.”

The visit of Mr. Trudeau had already created waves in India earlier in the week, when it has been known that Jaspal Atwal, a sikh extremist sentenced in Canada for attempted murder in 1986 on the person of an indian minister in British Columbia, had attended an event in the program of Justin Trudeau in India and that he had been invited to an official reception organised by the High commission of Canada in New Delhi in the framework of the visit of the prime minister.

The invitation to Jaspal Atwal to the reception of New Delhi has been finally revoked, but the episode has raised sharp criticism and a number of issues, both in India and in Canada.

Justin Trudeau has promised to make the point on this odd with the liberal mla Randeep Sarai, who would be at the origin of the invitations made to Jaspal Atwal.