'Canada has permissive attitude towards terrorism', EAM S Jaishankar

 External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, while addressing on ‘India’s Role in the World Today’ at the prestigious Hudson Institute think-tank, spoke on the India Canada row. "The Canadian PM made some allegations initially privately, and then publicly. And, our, response to him, both in private and public, what he was alleging was not consistent with our policy. And that if he had, if his government had anything relevant and specific they would like us to look into, we were open to looking at it. Now, that`s where that conversation is at this point of time," said EAM. "This has been an issue of great, friction for many years with Canada. But in the last few years, it has come back, very much into play, because of what we consider to be a very permissive Canadian attitude towards terrorists, extremist people who openly advocate violence. And they have been given operating space in Canada because of the compulsions of Canadian politics," he added.