Overview
- The 2024 CSIS report affirms that Canada-based Khalistani extremists are actively promoting, fundraising and planning violence targeting India.
- CSIS traces the politically motivated Khalistani threat to the mid-1980s and reports no related attacks on Canadian soil in 2024.
- Indian government agents and proxy actors in Canada are accused of clandestine influence campaigns that Canada classifies as foreign interference.
- Ottawa cites credible evidence linking Indian state actors to the 2023 killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, with four suspects charged and legal proceedings ongoing.
- Following their June G7 meeting, Prime Ministers Mark Carney and Narendra Modi agreed to end a diplomatic freeze by reappointing high commissioners and reviving trade negotiations.