It's a good question, Ms. Dancho, and I thank you for it.
I think there are two things at play here. One is that India believes it can be more muscular in its approach to Canada and, as you say, brush us off and treat senior Canadian officials with extraordinary degrees of contempt. It simply believes it has the power to do that.
I've described India before as being stuck in what I call a plausible deniability box. It's finding it difficult to get out of that box by taking responsibility or being accountable for some of the covert operations it has been linked to.
It is in an embarrassing position with regard to the United States, in that it has been forced by the U.S. to agree to an investigation into covert operations conducted against American citizens. It would like to be able to treat Canada differently, so it would bend to the United States, but not bend to Canada, as a way of saving face while the Indian government figures out a real escape route from its past practices.