Trudeau Out, Tone Shifts: Canada PM Carney Refuses To 'Accuse' Anyone For Nijjar's Killing - WATCH

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that he cannot accuse anyone of wrongdoing when the legal process is on, months after his colleague and former Canada PM Justin Trudeau openly claimed that India was involved in the killing of Khalistani terrorist - Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Carney said that Canada has a legal process and until the truth is out, he cannot say anything. The response is in stark contrast to what his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, said while accusing India of conspiracy and murder of Nijjar, which led to tensions between the two countries.

Trudeau had claimed that they had "credible evidence" to show India's involvement in the killing of Nijjar. However, the same was never put forth by him.

"Well, first off, there is a legal process that is literally underway and quite advanced in Canada and it's never appropriate to make comments in any respect with respect to those legal processes," Carney told the media.

When asked why, despite the Nijjar probe, he was inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the G7 Summit, he said, "With respect, I gave you an answer that is appropriate to someone in my position about an ongoing legal process, including which federal authorities are directly involved."

When the reporter insisted and asked, " But there is a possibility?", the Canadian PM repeated what he said before, "I will give you the same answer to any legal process and anyone who holds this office, past and future, will give the same answer to any ongoing legal process because otherwise the individual in this office will interfere."

In a message to people of Canada, he said, "...We are a country of the rule of law. The rule of law is proceeding as it should in Canada and I am not going to disrupt that process."

Khalistani separatist Hardeeo Singh Nijjar was killed in Surrey, British Columbia, in 2022. Following this, the-then PM of Canada, Justin Trudeau, claimed to have "credible evidence" to show India's links in Nijjar's killing. The statement drew a strong reaction from India. When asked for the proof, Trudeau said it was just "intelligence".

New Delhi took diplomatic measures to corner Canada and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) explicitly said that Justin Trudeau was responsible for the "damage" in India's relations with Canada. The fallout hit Trudeau hard and a month after his remark, he admitted to having no such evidence against India.

"We chose to continue to work behind the scenes to try and get India to cooperate with us... And our response was, well, it's within your security agencies, you should be looking into how much they know, you should be engaging,' Trudeau stated.

"And at that point, it was primarily intelligence, not hard evidentiary proof," he added, while testifying before the Canadian Parliament’s Foreign Interference Commission.