India cannot act with impunity on Canadian soil, but Canadians must understand where India is coming from

India cannot act with impunity on Canadian soil, but Canadians must understand where India is coming from

Earlier this month, Sanjay Verma, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, told a Montreal conference that the Indian government views any rhetoric around Sikh separatism or the creation of Khalistan in India’s Punjab region as a “national security threat.”  Here in Canada, however, our government generally views such statements as protected speech unless they cross into criminal activity under domestic law.  How we reconcile these two differing int…