The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau’s woes
Support for his government was faltering even before the squabble
On September 18th Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, lobbed a diplomatic grenade into his combustive relationship with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister. Mr Trudeau accused “agents of the government of India” of killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and Sikh separatist leader, earlier this year. Mr Modi has responded by calling the allegation “absurd”, ordering the Canadian government to cut the number of its diplomats in New Delhi and suspending new visas for visiting Canadians.
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