For over four decades, the diplomatic corridors between New Delhi and Ottawa have echoed with a singular, repetitive refrain: the “fomenting of violence” on Indian soil from Canadian sanctuaries. The “CSIS Public Report 2025, titled “A safe, secure and prosperous Canada through trusted intelligence, advice and action and published in March 2026, attempts to balance.
The quiet, tree-lined streets of LaSalle, Montreal, were never meant to be a battlefield. Yet, the brutal killing of Nancy Grewal—a 45-year-old personal support worker and outspoken critic of Khalistani extremism—has transformed a peaceful Canadian suburb into a scene of primal, ideological savagery. Stabbed 18 times outside a client’s home in March, Grewal did not.
For much of the past decade, Canada projected itself as a moral outlier in an increasingly securitised world—an open society where compassion guided immigration policy and asylum was treated as a near-sacred commitment. That reputation is now being recalibrated. The passage of Bills C-12 and C-9 marks not merely legislative change, but a deeper ideological.
New Delhi: India and Canada are exploring new avenues for cooperation, with Canada expressing interest in becoming a dialogue partner for the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). During the Ministry of External Affairs briefing on Canadian PM Mark Carney’s official visit to India, Secretary (East) P Kumaran stated that India has supported Canada’s interest, citing.
New Delhi: India called for focusing on the rule of law rather than political narratives, adding that it trusted Canada’s legal process, awaiting the outcome of the jury trial in 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the event that originally “ripped apart” bilateral ties. During the Ministry of External Affairs briefing on Canadian PM Mark.
