‘There was a lot of communication between Canada and the United States about this,’ David Cohen told CTV News in an interview that will be aired on Sunday.
United States Ambassador to Canada David Cohen on Saturday confirmed that information shared by members of an intelligence-sharing alliance had informed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the Indian government’s possible involvement in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in suburban Vancouver, CTV News reported.
“There was shared intelligence among ‘Five Eyes’ partners that helped lead Canada to [make] the statements that the prime minister made,” Cohen told the news network in an interview.
The Five Eyes alliance consists of the US, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
“I will say this was a matter of shared intelligence information,” the US envoy added. “There was a lot of communication between Canada and the United States about this, and I think that’s as far as I’m comfortable going.”
CTV News said that it will air the full interview with the diplomat on Sunday.
