{"id":5920,"date":"2024-10-21T02:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2024-10-21T02:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:20:46","slug":"how-did-a-killing-at-a-sikh-temple-lead-to-canada-and-india-expelling-each-others-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2024\/10\/21\/how-did-a-killing-at-a-sikh-temple-lead-to-canada-and-india-expelling-each-others-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India expelling each other\u2019s diplomats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing: Why India and Canada are expelling diplomats | AP News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in June of 2023, Sikh activist Hardeep Sign Nijjar was shot and killed after leaving the Sikh temple he led in Surrey, British Columbia. He was born in India, and a citizen of Canada, where he led a movement to create a Sikh homeland – banned in India. Tensions have continued to rise since then, but most recently Canada said that their top Indian diplomat is a suspect, as police have found evidence of a campaign against Canadian citizens by the Indian government. In the past, Sikh separatist groups in Canada have hurt their relationship, but they have continued to hold strong defense and trade relationships. Now they continue to stay rocky as accusations fly from both countries and they have expelled each other\u2019s top diplomats over the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India and Canada have held close trade relationships for a very long time, and this event shows how political issues can change international relations when an involved country sees the other as interfering. Sikh makes up 2% of the Canadian population, leading to the need for the Canadian Government to address Indian interference and how their trust and relationships will be affected. Both countries share interests in restraining China\u2019s trade, but these diplomatic tensions could postpone these trade talks regarding China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though India has continued to deny any allegations about the killing of Nijjar, a possible response from them would be cooperating with Canadian police and investigations to ease tensions. If both countries worked through this domestic issue, they could focus on maintaining Indo-Pacific trade relations, however, the action of expelling each other\u2019s diplomats may have left a major strain on their relationship. India may not be able to move past this event, as they view Nijjar\u2019s movement as a terrorist group, and they may need to see Canada take action with the Sikh population in their country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada and India hold important trade alliances that mutually benefit one another, along with restricting Chinese trade. As they\u2019ve worked together, India\u2019s national interests in stopping Nijjar and his movements have stopped them from being able to hold a strong relationship. Canada used the solution of reciprocity to punish India for acting in its national interest instead of what was best for the group and their economic ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing: Why India and Canada are expelling diplomats | AP News Back in June of 2023, Sikh activist Hardeep Sign Nijjar was shot and killed after leaving the Sikh temple he led in Surrey, British Columbia. He was born in India, and a citizen of Canada, where he led a movement to create a Sikh homeland –… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}