June 6, 2025
Pooja Sekhon
Ottawa – Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and extended an invitation to attend Canada’s 2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
The two leaders discussed the longstanding relationship between Canada and India, including deep people-to-people ties and significant commercial links. Importantly, there was agreement to continued law enforcement dialogue and discussions addressing security concerns.
PM Modi has indicated that he will attend the summit and is looking forward to meeting Carney at the event, to be held from June 15 to 17.
Taking to X on Friday, PM Modi wrote he had received a call from the Canadian Prime Minister and that the two countries would work together with “renewed vigour”, guided by mutual respect.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO), however, has condemned the invitation saying that the timing and nature of this announcement have caused outrage and pain within the Sikh community across Canada.
The WSO had sent a letter to PMO on May 21, urging him not to invite Prime Minister Modi. The letter detailed India’s well-documented campaign of transnational repression targeting Sikhs in Canada, including the 2023 assassination of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and the RCMP’s confirmation of “clear and compelling evidence” of Indian government agents engaging in criminal activities on Canadian soil.
Sikh Federation has called the invitation a grave insult to Sikhs across Canada.
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