Indian foreign ministry claims ‘security threats’ after Trudeau’s explosive allegation of state-sponsored killing mean it cannot provide visa services safely

India says it is indefinitely suspending visa services in all categories for all Canadian nationals due to “security threats” to its consulates, amid a furious diplomatic row between the two countries.

Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said they have suspended “all categories” of visas, including e-visas and for Canadian citizens applying from third countries.

And India has also moved to downsize the Canadian diplomatic presence in New Delhi, saying that Canada has more embassy workers in its capital than visa versa and that it wants to restore “parity”.

It comes after Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” of the Indian state’s involvement in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, triggering a furious tit-for-tat row.

  • Szymon
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    You need those immigrants to work the low wages you won’t. The problem is all the frderal governments that have stopped building social housing twenty years ago. A deficit of millions of low cost units is there problem, not new people in the country.

    Blame your concerned conservative and liberal leaders for the last twenty years, not the brown skinned guy trying to feed his kids.

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      You need those immigrants to work the low wages you won’t

      Or, to put it another way: shitty corps and their govt lackeys need those pliable immigrants to work for the underpaid and abusive jobs that Canadians won’t, rather than fixing the pay and working conditions

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        While this thread is about India, immigrants come from all over the world. Some work IT, some work health care, many work the service industry, many drive trucks, many clean buildings, many work on farms, and so on.

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      The problem is that bringing in TFW’s to work at Tim Hortons allows the shitty food chain to keep their wages artificially low.

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        So stop shopping there, don’t support the bullshit. Start talking to the workers about unionizing.

        Rich people are fucking you over. They’ll do whatever they can get away with. And they’re successfully convincing people that people that don’t look like you are the problem.

        Don’t kid yourself, they can raise wages plety without affecting the price of your coffee, but they won’t touch their profit margin so the extra cost gets passed to the consumer.

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          Agreed.

          And I don’t. Haven’t been to Tim Hortons more than twice in the last 6 years.

          I’m with you.

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      Gee if no one is working for those low wages, the solution is for wages to rise not to bring in more workers to sustain poverty wages.

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        You’d think so, but the people that own the land and equipment also spend money on politicians that keep that kind of policy from passing into law.

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      They’re not working low wage jobs. These are decent paying middle income jobs that’s driving many 3rd and greater generation Canadians to lose any socioeconomic status within their own country. The Canadian government is hollowing out the middle class in favor of immigration who are taking these well paying jobs to suppress wages so its cheaper to produce the goods and services. Offshoring didn’t work out well so they brought the offshore to Canada and its a pretty serious issue that has caused a generation of Canadians to experience very hard times

      Its driving more Canadians into low wage jobs though and increasing pressure there.

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        We’ll fix our problems when we realize it’s supposed to be class warfare, not racism.

        The people trying to feed the kids are not the source of our problems, it’s the white people who made government policies that are fucking everyone who isn’t rich.

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          That’s a rich comment coming from someone who immediately assumed that brown foreign people must be low wage workers.

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            Please provide a link of me making a claim like you suggest. If someone here is making immediate assumptions, it’s not me. I suggest that you have misinterpreted my words.