Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to both of our witnesses for being here.
I have to say how dismayed I am once again on our second day of testimony here. We just had really powerful testimony from two members of the community in the last hour, speaking about personal threats to themselves. Mr. Moninder Singh spoke about some of the last words spoken by Mr. Nijjar, and the Conservatives asked, in their first round, whether Canada is getting brushed off by India in meetings.
Do you think the Sikh community experiencing threats against their lives care that Canada and the Modi government brushed off some of those meetings? Perhaps if we cowed to that pressure...like Stephen Harper, who condemned Canadians' right to free speech and promoted Sikh separatism. He got those meetings. Andrew Scheer got those meetings. Do you think that Canadians care about the brushing off of meetings over the safety of community members' lives? Let's seriously think about this. Mr. Caputo, in his round of questions on a study about foreign interference by India, asked about China. I wonder how the Sikh community feels after that powerful testimony, not even an hour ago, about threats to life in our country and Mr. Caputo asking about China. Ms. Dancho asked about brushing off of meetings. Perhaps we should be asking about how the Indian government has used agents to threaten the lives of Canadian citizens. Perhaps that should be a priority in the limited time that we have in these meetings.
To our two witnesses, do you think that it provides Canadians with a sense of safety and security whether or not the Modi government likes us enough to have those meetings, or is it better for Canada to initiate Canadian policy and take a Canadian stance that protects our citizens?