Two senior ministers in the Liberal government cabinet say the promotional material for a planned activity protesting the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia is “unacceptable.”
One poster circulating online calling for a “Khalistan Freedom Rally” on July 8 in Toronto says “Kill India.” It adds that two Indian diplomats in Canada are the “faces” of the “killers” of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, who advocated for a Sikh state independent of India, and served as the president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, was gunned down in June.
“Canada takes its obligations under the Vienna Conventions regarding the safety of diplomats very seriously,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in a July 3 statement on Twitter….