Travel in India: the liberals refuse to make light of the invitation of an ex-terrorist

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Maxime Huard

Thursday, 1 march 2018 13:14

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OTTAWA-The liberals have blocked Thursday morning two motions aimed to shed light on the invitation of a former sikh terrorist at an official reception last week, during the visit of Justin Trudeau in India.

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While the public Safety minister, Ralph Goodale, appeared before the standing Committee on public safety and national security, the conservative mp Pierre Paul-Hus asked that the national security adviser, Daniel John, to be summoned.

His testimony would have helped explain how to Jaspal Atwal, who was sentenced in 1986 in Canada for attempted murder in the place of an indian minister, found himself on a guest list to a dinner in the presence of prime minister Trudeau, in Delhi.

The liberal majority voted against any debate on the subject. A second similar motion was also defeated.

Asked about the incident Atwal, minister Goodale has been stingy with details, and sought shelter behind the confidentiality of the operations of national security. “My oath prevents me from discussing information of this nature in public”, he repeated several times.

He has not been able to confirm whether or not the royal Canadian mounted police or the canadian security intelligence Service security had discussed in advance the guest list of the event of 22 February.

As soon as the invitation that Mr. Atwal was noised abroad, the prime minister’s office said that it 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 to settle, under the cover of anonymity, the incident of the factions within the indian government who want to interfere in Canada. This is what responsible government that the conservatives wanted to hear in committee.

The indian government said on Wednesday that the allegations that canadian were “baseless” and “unacceptable”.