Overview

• The listing allows authorities to freeze or seize any property, vehicles or funds in Canada tied to the group and makes providing support a criminal offence.
• Ottawa describes the network as a transnational organization based in India with a presence in Canada that uses murder, shootings and arson while extorting and intimidating diaspora communities.
• Immigration and border officials can use the designation in admissibility decisions, and law enforcement gains expanded powers to pursue financing, travel and recruitment offences.
• The move follows sustained pressure from provincial leaders in British Columbia and Alberta as well as federal Conservatives to formally apply the Criminal Code listing.
• The step comes in a sensitive Canada–India context that includes Canadian allegations of links to the 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, which India denies, and recent security talks between Ajit Doval and Nathalie Drouin.