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Canada has blocked Australia Today, an Australian news channel, and its social media handles. Actually, this channel had shown the press conference of Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, who was on Australia tour, on TV. Jaishankar held a press conference with the Australian Foreign Minister on Thursday.
In this conference, Jaishankar had criticized Canada for accusing India without concrete evidence in the Nijjar case. During this, Jaishankar said that Canada gives political space to anti-India elements. He also condemned the surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada.
The Indian Foreign Ministry has called this step of Canada as hypocrisy. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that Canada has done this just hours after the press conference of External Affairs Minister Jaishankar.
Jaiswal said that this step of Canada has exposed its hypocrisy for freedom of expression.
Jaishankar went on a 5-day tour of Australia Foreign Minister Jaishankar had visited Australia from 3 to 7 November. During this, Jaishankar interacted with business leaders and CEOs of many companies. Also participated in the 15th India-Australia Framework Dialogue.
He was in Sydney today where he participated in a press briefing with the Australian Foreign Minister. During the briefing, Jaishankar expressed his views on issues related to Canada. The Foreign Ministry said that Jaishankar emphasized on three things.
These included Canada blaming India in the Nijjar murder case without any concrete evidence, surveillance of Indian diplomats and political accommodation to anti-India elements.
Today was the last day of Foreign Minister Jaishankar's tour to Australia.
Canada refuses to provide security to Indian camps Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that Canada has refused to provide security to the Indian Consulate camps. Due to this, India has had to cancel these camps. The Indian Consulate in Toronto was scheduled to organize some camps this week.
In fact, on September 27, the Indian Consulate General had announced to organize 14 camps in different cities of Canada for pension certificates. These camps were to be held between November 2 and November 23 in Winnipeg, Brampton, Halifax and Oakville.
But now some of these camps will not be organized due to lack of security.
The Indian High Commission provides necessary facilities through Consulate camps.
What is a Consulate Camp?
In Canada, all the people who get pension from the Indian Government have to submit a life certificate. For this, camps are organized by the Indian High Commission every year in November. To help the people of cities which are far away from the High Commission, camps are organized in religious places like Gurudwaras and temples.
For the certificate, one has to give one's name to the embassy a week before the camp starts. The same camp was organized on November 3 at the Hindu Sabha temple in Brampton. This temple is the largest temple in Brampton and surrounding areas. Similar camps were also set up in Surrey and Calgary.
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