“Canada is the US’ poodle” and would never create such a rift with a US partner as it has with India without some kind of direction from Washington, an expert told Sputnik.
Relations between Canada and India have continued to sour after Ottawa accused the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of a “link” with the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen who headed an Indian secessionist group known as the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), in British Columbia earlier this year.The two nations are both partners of the United States, with Canada being part of the NATO alliance and the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community, and India being part of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) anti-China grouping. However, New Delhi has also remained political, military, and economic partners with Russia amid US attempts to isolate Moscow, especially since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine last year.Writer and activist KJ Noh told Sputnik on Wednesday that it was likely Canada was being used by Washington as a bludgeon to try and force India back into line.
