Overseas Friends of India Canada slams Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre for cancelling Diwali celebrations; demands apology
Indo-Canadians and Ottawa, this time involving not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau but the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre.
The office of Canada’s opposition leader has cancelled a Diwali celebration event scheduled to take place at Parliament Hill amid the ongoing diplomatic standoff with India without 'giving any explanation whatsoever', as claimed by the Overseas Friends of India Canada (OFIC).
This comes following an going standoff between Ottawa and New Delhi. Canada in mid-October expelled Indian diplomats, linking them to the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil, post which India also ordered the expulsion of Canadian diplomats.
OFIC, the organisers of the event, wrote to Poilievre, expressing 'extreme disappointment' and voiced its dismay at the Office of the Leader of Opposition for cancelling the 24th Diwali celebration on the Parliament Hill.
«For the past 23 years, Hindus, Buddhist, Jains and Sikhs have looked forward to participating in this joyous occasion to share and celebrate this joyous day with all our Canadian brothers and sisters,» Shiv Bhasker, President of OFIC said in his letter, adding that the sudden withdrawal of political leaders from this event, prompted by the current diplomatic situation between Canada and India, has left the diaspora feeling 'betrayed' and 'unjustly singled out'.
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