A messy diplomatic crisis is escalating this week.

It started in Canada, with an explosive accusation from the country's leader Justin Trudeau.

Mr. Speaker, today I'm rising to inform the House of an extremely serious matter.

Our colleague, Tripti Lahiri, watched as Trudeau made an emergency statement in Canada's

parliament.

He laid out what was basically an accusation of an assassination or an extrajudicial

killing by another government on Canadian territory.

Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible

allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing

of a Canadian citizen, her deep-sing Niger.

So that was really a huge allegation that he made and it created truck waves in India.

Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian

soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.

The allegation, which India denies, is now dragging other Western democracies into the

fray.

On one side, there's Canada, a trusted NATO ally.

On the other is India, an emerging economic superpower.

Now it's really a pretty major geopolitical incident, and one that the leaders of a number

of countries are probably getting briefed on and need to figure out where they stand on.

And what sorts of discussions they have about it with Canada, what sorts of discussions

that they have about it with India.

It is a very tricky position for the US, and for others of Canada's allies that are also

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