B.C. Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal says he has a meeting scheduled with Prime Minister Mark Carney this week to talk about his controversial decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 in Alberta next week.
Dhaliwal says he’s spoken with hundreds of people who disagree with Carney’s decision to invite Modi to the upcoming leaders summit — some of them members of the Liberal caucus.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and the RCMP have linked agents of the Indian government to the murder of Canadian Sikh separatist activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., nearly two years ago.
Last October, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme said the police force has evidence linking Indian government officials to other crimes in Canada, including extortion, coercion and homicide.
Dhaliwal, who represents the riding where Nijjar was killed, says the invitation betrays Canadian values and should have been made conditional on India’s …