{"id":72160,"date":"2025-06-07T05:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/06\/canada-prime-minister-g7-invitation-modi"},"modified":"2025-06-07T05:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:58:48","slug":"canadas-pm-faces-backlash-for-inviting-indias-narendra-modi-for-g7-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72160","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s PM faces backlash for inviting India\u2019s Narendra Modi for G7 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney declined to answer if he believed Indian PM had a role in murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada\u2019s federal police\u2019s that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/india-canada-expel-top-diplomats-escalating-row-sikh-activists-death-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">orchestrated by the \u201chighest levels\u201d of the Indian government.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carney declined to answer reporters\u2019 questions over whether he believed Modi had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar \u2013 a killing on Canadian soil that shattered relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/06\/canada-prime-minister-g7-invitation-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney declined to answer if he believed Indian PM had a role in murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh NijjarCanada\u2019s prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,637,62,3275,433,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-g7","category-india","category-mark-carney","category-narendra-modi","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72160\/revisions\/72161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}