The Blubber

India has suspended visa services for Canadian nationals after diplomatic escalation, with Canada accusing India of killing a Canadian national on Canadian soil, per Bloomberg.

“Due to operation reasons, with immediate effect i.e. 21 September 2023, Indian visa services in Canada have been suspended till further notice,” the letter, sent to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India and the Metropolitan Stock Exchange, read.

ndia’s Ministry of External Affairs said “security threats” faced by the Indian High Commission and consulates in Canada led to the temporary measure of halting visa issuance across all categories.

“The issue is of incitement of violence, the inaction by the Canadian authorities, the creation of an environment that disrupts the functioning our high commission and consulates, that’s what’s making us stop temporarily the issuance of visas or providing visa services,” the ministry’s spokesman, Arindam Bagchi, said.

“We have always believed that it is the host government’s responsibility to provide security,” he told reporters

Trudeau called on India to work with Canada and “allow justice to follow its course.”

“There is no question that India is a country of growing importance and a country that we need to continue to work with not just in the region but around the world,” Trudeau told reporters at a press conference at the Canada Mission in the United Nations.

He said Canada “is not looking to provoke or cause problems,” but reiterated “the importance of the rule of law.”