The violence at a Hindu temple outside Toronto on Sunday, November 3, 2024, which some authorities blamed on Sikh protestors, was denounced as “unacceptable” by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In order to keep the peace during a protest, local police in Brampton, which is around 50 km (30 miles) northwest of Toronto, said they had heavily deployed outside the Hindu Sabha Mandir.
No one had been arrested, a Peel Regional Police spokesperson told. Additionally, police have refused to place blame for the violence that has been reported.
The event was attributed to “Khalistanis,” a reference to supporters of the fringe separatist movement for an independent Sikh homeland in Punjab state, India, by Chandra Arya, a federal MP and member of Trudeau’s Liberal Party.
After Ottawa accused the Indian government of masterminding the 2023 murder in Vancouver of 45-year-old Khalistan supporter and naturalized Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar, relations between Canada and India have deteriorated. In addition to Nijjar’s murder, Canada has charged India with leading a large-scale campaign against Sikh activists in Canada, which Ottawa claims has involved violence, threats, and intimidation.
