Canada’s panic! Australian channel banned after S Jaishankar’s press conference; India lodged objection

By Cross Talk India Team On Nov 7, 2024

India-Canada Row: The attitude of Canada (India-Canada Row) towards India seems to be changing day by day. Today, Canada has angrily banned an Australian channel, after which the Trudeau government seems to be constantly facing questions. Actually, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is on a tour of Australia.

He held a joint press conference with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong today. During this press conference, the Indian Foreign Minister raised the issue of Canada accusing India without any evidence. Canada immediately after (Canada) banned ‘Australia Today’ channel in Canada. India has lodged its strong objection to this action of Canada. The Indian Foreign Ministry has expressed concern in this matter and has said a big thing.

India-Canada Row- India expressed objection to Canada’s action

‘Australia Today’ channel was banned in Canada today. The Canadian government took this decision just after the press conference of Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.

#WATCH Delhi: On Canada blocking or banning the prominent outlet there- Australia Today, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, “We understand that the social media handles, pages of this particular outlet, which is an important diaspora outlet, has been blocked and are not… pic.twitter.com/r0Igyg3Ho0

— ANI (@ANI) November 7, 2024

Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “An important diaspora outlet has been banned from viewers in Canada. This happened just hours after the press conference of Penny Wong and External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar. Such actions expose Canada’s hypocrisy towards freedom of expression. You must have seen that the External Affairs Minister talked about three things in his media programs. Firstly, Canada made allegations without any specific evidence and secondly, they Canada Highlighted the surveillance of Indian diplomats taking place in India, which he described as unacceptable. The third thing he highlighted was the political space that has been given to anti-India elements in Canada. So you can draw your own conclusion from this as to why Australia Today channel was blocked by Canada.”

‘It is unacceptable to keep Indian diplomats under surveillance’

The Ministry of External Affairs has clarified that keeping Indian diplomats in Canada under surveillance is completely unacceptable.

#WATCH Delhi: MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, “We had asked for security to be provided for our diplomats where the consular camp was to be held and those have not been provided by the Canadian side. Over the last year or even more, the kind of things that we have seen… https://t.co/LJLDHVrVY6 pic.twitter.com/Naph5ZS5Z4

— ANI (@ANI) November 7, 2024

Randhir Jaiswal says, “We had asked our diplomats to provide security where the consular camp was to be held. Security was not provided by the Canadian side. Over the last year or more we have seen Indian diplomats being attacked, threatened and harassed. Indian diplomats are being kept under surveillance, which is completely unacceptable. “We have talked about it and raised this matter very strongly with the Canadian side.”