TORONTO: Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly on Friday said the remaining Indian diplomats in the country are “clearly on notice” after Canada named the Indian High Commissioner in Ottawa as a person of interest in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader.Joly said the government would not tolerate any diplomats who contravene the Vienna Convention or put the lives of Canadians at risk.India expelled six Canadian diplomats on Monday and announced that it was withdrawing its High Commissioner in Canada after dismissing Ottawa’s allegations linking the envoy to the probe into the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.Canada, however, said it had expelled six Indian diplomats.Joly, comparing India to Russia, said Canada’s national police force has linked Indian diplomats to homicides, death threats and intimidation in Canada.
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