Relationship between India and Canada: Robinder Sachdev, a specialist in foreign affairs, has claimed that it “looks like Canada intends to teach India a lesson. Sachdev claimed that Canada is attempting to demonstrate to the west “that India is becoming a challenge to our western controlled order” by “spewing worldwide propaganda” against the country.
Intelligent Failure
India claims that Canadian intelligence is compiling information on Indian officials. Sachdev said, “My argument is that a commission of inquiry is already underway in Canada considering all these foreign influences and their intelligence failings.
India is classified as a cyber adversary by Canada
In its most recent accusation, Canada’s Justin Trudeau administration named India a “cyber enemy” and included it on a list of unfriendly countries in the field of cybersecurity. India denounced this action, claiming it was an effort to damage its standing abroad.
India ranks fifth in the newly released “National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026” assessment, behind China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
In the trend on “Geopolitically inspired non-state actors are creating unpredictability,” India is also mentioned. For instance, a pro-India hacktivist group claimed to have briefly attacked and defaced Canadian websites after India was implicated in the murder of a Canadian citizen.
“It is important to look into how Canadian intelligence is doing these actions,” he continued. The Canadian Parliament ought to be aware of how its intelligence is functioning; perhaps there are some holes, or perhaps the intelligence has been manipulated by foreign powers.
“It seems like Canada wants to teach India a lesson…they are spewing global propaganda against us…maybe they are trying to push back at India and show to the west, that is America and England specifically, that India is becoming a threat to our western dominated order,” Sachdev added in his hypothetical statement. India’s government most likely wants to develop a modernized cyber program with local cyber capabilities, according to the assessment.
India most certainly uses its cyber program to further its national security objectives, such as counterterrorism, espionage, and the nation’s attempts to boost its international standing and refute negative narratives about India and the Indian government. We conclude that in order to improve its operations, India’s cyber program probably makes use of commercial cyber suppliers.
“We conclude that cyber threat activity against Government of Canada networks is probably carried out by Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors for espionage purposes. We believe that Indian state-sponsored cyberthreat activities against Canada will most likely be fueled by the formal bilateral ties between Canada and India.
Additionally, it stated that “countries like India, which aim to become new centers of power in the global system, are developing cyber programs that pose varied degrees of threat to Canada.”
