Carney facing some Liberal pushback over Modi’s invitation to G7 summit [Video]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing some pushback from his caucus over Canada’s decision to invite the Indian prime minister to the G7 meeting in Alberta next week, with one Sikh MP saying it’s a “bad idea.”

B.C. MP Sukh Dhaliwal told reporters he met with Carney early Wednesday to express what he says are constituents’ frustrations with the decision to include Narendra Modi. Canadian police have alleged Indian agents were involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Canadian Khalistani separatist who was gunned down in B.C. in 2023.

Nijjar and others in that movement have been calling for an independent Sikh homeland in northern India called Khalistan, which Modi’s government has vigorously opposed and denounced as a national security threat.

“The RCMP has clearly stated there’s credible evidence Indian agents were involved in the assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil,” Dhaliwal said of Nijjar. …