Jaishankar's grudge with Canada

This is why India's Foreign Minister is unhappy with Canada's certain kind of "vote bank politics"...

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00:00If anybody has a complaint, we have a complaint about Canada.

00:27Some time ago, I had a conversation with my Canadian counterpart. And I told her

00:32very frankly, dekhe aapko vote bank politics apne yaha karna hai toh kar lijiye.

00:36Wahan baith ke mere yaha nahi kari.

00:46Bigger issue involved is really the space that Canada has continuously and frankly

00:55to us, you know, we are at a loss to understand other than the requirements of vote bank politics, why anybody would do this?

01:04I think there is a larger underlying issue about the space which is given to separatists, to extremists,

01:13to people who advocate violence. And I think it's not good for the relationship and I think it's not good for Canada.

01:19The Canadian NSA has said that India has been interfering in their domestic politics. Your reaction to this?

01:25You know, I was, what shall I say? Okay. The phrase which came to my mind was actually a Hindi phrase.

01:36Which was, ulta chaur kotwal ko dante. I mean, if anybody has a complaint, we have a complaint about Canada.

01:46You know, what I said earlier, the space that they are giving to Khalistanis and to violent extremists.

01:52So, I was very perplexed by what I heard.

02:16It is not just in Canada. Maine kabhi nahi kaha ki it is only in Canada. We are as opposed to it.

02:22You know, many of you have heard me criticize, you know, the UK authorities for the lack of protection to the High Commission,

02:29when Khalistani supporters took down our flag. We had some issues in Australia as well.

02:35So, our point is this. Look, they are a very small minority. We know, we do not believe that they represent sort of any

02:44significant body of opinion. Our plea to these governments is, look, please understand, these are marginal elements,

02:52they are extremist elements, they are not good for you, they are not good for us, they are not good for the relationship.

02:57It's not a message limited to Canada. Canada came up because you people raised it and because certain things have happened recently in Canada.

03:04So, if it was not Canada, if it had happened somewhere else, I would honestly say the same thing.

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