The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a force that normally defaults to stony silence about investigations, called a news conference in Ottawa on Monday. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The Times’s Canada bureau chief, reports that the R.C.M.P. accused the Indian government of running a criminal operation to intimidate and even kill critics of India who live in Canada. [Read: Canada Expels Indian Diplomats, Accusing Them of Criminal Campaign]The Mounties were followed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as his foreign and public safety ministers, who announced that as a result of the police investigation, India’s high commissioner and five other diplomats from the country had been told earlier that morning that they were being expelled from Canada.

Source: International New York Times October 20, 2024 01:45 UTC