Canada says India second-biggest foreign threat to its democracy

The report named China as the number-one threat. India has been moved up from the third spot in 2019 ahead of Russia in the foreign threat perception index.

A recent special report from a high-level Canadian parliamentary committee has labelled India as the "second-biggest foreign threat" to Canada's democracy.

The report named China as the number-one threat. India has been moved up from the third spot in 2019 ahead of Russia in the foreign threat perception index.

"India emerged as the second-most significant foreign interference threat to Canada’s democratic institutions and processes," said the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians report.

"While India’s foreign interference efforts have slowly increased, it became clear during the period of this review that its efforts had extended beyond countering what it perceived as pro-Khalistani efforts in Canada to include interfering in Canadian democratic processes and institutions, including through the targeting of Canadian politicians, ethnic media and Indo-Canadian ethnocultural communities," the report stated.