Amid diplomatic relations between India and Canada, top official of the Trudeau government has confirmed the reports of sharing sensitive intel about India to a leading US publication. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Canada, David Morrison has accepted these reports.
Top Canadian government official David Morisson has confessed to the leaking intelligence and sensitive information against India to the US publication, The Washington Post. David Morrison said during his speech, ‘Within our strategy, we were talking to different audiences and so we deliberately chose, as Madame Durand said in her introductory remarks, ‘a credible, internationally-read newspaper that would carry our side of the story.’ We chose a journalist who had a long record of background in this particular issue and had written on it a number of times before.”
He further said, “And through the Washington Post, we were speaking directly to our friends in the United States. (0:40) We were speaking to our allies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. (0:46) And we were also speaking directly to Indians.
”David Morrison accepted that by sharing this information via The Washington Post, Canada wanted to ensure that all those countries who ‘shared similar concerns from the beginning’ were on Canada’s side amid the ongoing India-Canada diplomatic tensions.
David Morrison said on being asked if this ‘leak or non-leak’ was an effort to get Americans on board for the Canadian perspective , “What I would say is that we approached this whole series of events, including our approach that we adopted in going to Singapore. We were talking to our closest allies who share similar concerns from the beginning.”
This acceptance comes following the meeting with NSA Ajit Doval in Singapore to target audience in US, UK and India, to basically to set a narrative against India. A Canadian daily, citing two sources, alleged that Nathalie Drouin and David Morrison gave a briefing on India’s interference operations in Canada to The Washington Post in the week before Thanksgiving.
The media outlet further claimed that the intelligence was not to be reported until RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme held a news conference on Thanksgiving Day. However, a spokesperson for Drouin and Morris has dismissed any classified information was shared, according to the English daily.
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