Indian foreign ministry claims ‘security threats’ after Trudeau’s explosive allegation of state-sponsored killing mean it cannot provide visa services safely

India says it is indefinitely suspending visa services in all categories for all Canadian nationals due to “security threats” to its consulates, amid a furious diplomatic row between the two countries.

Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said they have suspended “all categories” of visas, including e-visas and for Canadian citizens applying from third countries.

And India has also moved to downsize the Canadian diplomatic presence in New Delhi, saying that Canada has more embassy workers in its capital than visa versa and that it wants to restore “parity”.

It comes after Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” of the Indian state’s involvement in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, triggering a furious tit-for-tat row.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      That’s what India wants…

      They want to stop the brain drain their country is experiencing. If they outright forbid their citizens from emigrating, then they’re obviously the bad guys.

      If they can make other countries stop Indians from immigrating, the. It Stokes the “us against the world” sentiment that far authoritarian goverments need to stay in power.

      The absolute worst thing any country can do to India, is open up for refugees from there. People would be throwing out their Indian citizenship left and right

      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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        Canada is hurting right now by taking in so many immigrants, primarily from India. Many companies are using it to suppress wages. Its causing huge strain on housing were kids today will not own a home without assistance from a family member. Its baffling the amount of immigrants Canada is bringing in.

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          You need those immigrants to work the low wages you won’t. The problem is all the frderal governments that have stopped building social housing twenty years ago. A deficit of millions of low cost units is there problem, not new people in the country.

          Blame your concerned conservative and liberal leaders for the last twenty years, not the brown skinned guy trying to feed his kids.

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            You need those immigrants to work the low wages you won’t

            Or, to put it another way: shitty corps and their govt lackeys need those pliable immigrants to work for the underpaid and abusive jobs that Canadians won’t, rather than fixing the pay and working conditions

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            Blame your concerned conservative and liberal leaders for the last twenty years, not the brown skinned guy trying to feed his kids.

            Am I crazy or is that not exactly what the comment you replied to did? I didn’t see any racism or blame against Indians, it was entirely blaming the Canadian government for their immigration policies. I don’t know that I agree with the OP you replied to, but we should be able to have this conversation without devolving into “well you’re racist”

            You need those immigrants to work the low wages you won’t.

            I’d be interested to see some stats on average wages of Indian immigrants if you have any. There are a ton of Indians in my industry (tech) and they are very skilled and make very good wages. Imo they’re a valuable asset to my industry and I don’t believe they bring the average salaries down, but I don’t agree with the mindset that every immigrant is working at Tim Hortons or something.

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              While this thread is about India, immigrants come from all over the world. Some work IT, some work health care, many work the service industry, many drive trucks, many clean buildings, many work on farms, and so on.

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                Yes, this thread is about India, hence why I said:

                I’d be interested to see some stats on average wages of Indian immigrants if you have any

                Your response is goalpost moving and hand wavy.

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            The problem is that bringing in TFW’s to work at Tim Hortons allows the shitty food chain to keep their wages artificially low.

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              So stop shopping there, don’t support the bullshit. Start talking to the workers about unionizing.

              Rich people are fucking you over. They’ll do whatever they can get away with. And they’re successfully convincing people that people that don’t look like you are the problem.

              Don’t kid yourself, they can raise wages plety without affecting the price of your coffee, but they won’t touch their profit margin so the extra cost gets passed to the consumer.

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                Agreed.

                And I don’t. Haven’t been to Tim Hortons more than twice in the last 6 years.

                I’m with you.

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                Totally agree with the sentiment, but if I were to boycott everything I disagree with I’d be a hermit living in the woods… actually that doesn’t sound terrible

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            Gee if no one is working for those low wages, the solution is for wages to rise not to bring in more workers to sustain poverty wages.

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              You’d think so, but the people that own the land and equipment also spend money on politicians that keep that kind of policy from passing into law.

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            They’re not working low wage jobs. These are decent paying middle income jobs that’s driving many 3rd and greater generation Canadians to lose any socioeconomic status within their own country. The Canadian government is hollowing out the middle class in favor of immigration who are taking these well paying jobs to suppress wages so its cheaper to produce the goods and services. Offshoring didn’t work out well so they brought the offshore to Canada and its a pretty serious issue that has caused a generation of Canadians to experience very hard times

            Its driving more Canadians into low wage jobs though and increasing pressure there.

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              We’ll fix our problems when we realize it’s supposed to be class warfare, not racism.

              The people trying to feed the kids are not the source of our problems, it’s the white people who made government policies that are fucking everyone who isn’t rich.

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                That’s a rich comment coming from someone who immediately assumed that brown foreign people must be low wage workers.

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                  Please provide a link of me making a claim like you suggest. If someone here is making immediate assumptions, it’s not me. I suggest that you have misinterpreted my words.

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          I’ll bet you’re baffled as to why people call you racist too.

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          Canada is hurting right now by taking in so many immigrants, primarily from India.

          Canada, without immigration, has a replacement of 1.4. This means that for every 2 Canadian adults only 1.4 are produced. This is a NEGATIVE replacement rate. A rate of 2.1 is consider minimum viable.

          Its baffling the amount of immigrants Canada is bringing in.

          It really isn’t.

          Without immigrants Canada would eventually cease to have a population and disappear as a nation.

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      India seems to be one of their biggest sources of immigrants. Looks like they hoover up tech workers.

      Likely works in Canada’s favour to not do the same.

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            There is none. Expats are immigrants that don’t like to be associated with immigrants from poorer countries.

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            Not sure if this is a serious question or not.

            There is no difference between an expat and an immigrant. It’s a term white people like to use to avoid calling themselves immigrants, because in their mind that’s a term reserved for brown people…

            Edit: I am a white btw

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            Expats are what white people call themselves because they think “immigrants” sounds low class. There is no difference. You mostly see it from American and Western Europeans when they move abroad.

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                microdosing [ˈmīkrōˌdōsiNG] NOUN

                the action or practice of taking or administering very small amounts of a drug in order to test or benefit from its physiological action while minimizing undesirable side effects:
                "microdosing would allow tiny amounts of new drugs to be safely given to human volunteers"
                

                It’s a method currently being used to test very small doses of psychedelics, to see the effects on mental disorders.

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            You have a bunch of wrong answers.

            Expats intend to go back to their home country after some time.

            Immigrants intend to stay at their destination country.

            Granted the term is misused by white people who want to call themselves expats instead of calling themselves immigrants.

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            An expat is a person who resides abroad for work for a fixed period and intents to move back home once their contract has ended. However the term expats is used by high educated immigrants who don’t want to be called immigrants especially white people.

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            Immigrants intend to become citizens of their new country. Expats work there under temporary residence conditions and return home or to their next posting when done.

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            Expats move to where cost of living is cheaper so they can retire early.

            Immigrants move to where it’s higher in search of jobs.

            People argue it’s the same thing so they should be called the same thing, but if it’s for two different reasons, it makes sense there’s two different words for it.

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              There’s no difference. Both are moving elsewhere (immigrating) to increase their quality of life.

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                If you strip the context to its most basic form then yeah they’re both moving somewhere to nebulously increase their quality of life. Much like elevators and stairs are the same thing because they’re infrastructure that allows you to reach floors in a building that aren’t ground level.

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                  I don’t agree with that comparison. Expats and immigrants are doing the same thing. For different reasons sure, but the way they do it is the about the same. Imo people like to call themselves expats because they don’t wanna be associated with other immigrants.

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        Green cards (permanent resident card) in the US are processed in queues. The queues are based on your country of birth. Last I checked Chinas queue time is around 5 years whereas Indias is around 10 years.