Indian officials described it as the largestever Indian commercial delegation to Canada, with participation from more than 100 companies across sectors ranging from energy and mining to pharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, textiles and agriculture.
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.
