In leveling the explosive charge of the Indian government’s complicity in the killing of the Khalistani separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18 in Surrey, British Columbia province, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not just gone for broke but has perhaps in the process irretrievably damaged India-Canada relations, at least as long as he is the prime minister.

To go behind the current crisis, SAM Conversation and Mayank Chhaya Reports spoke to well-known Canadian journalist-writer Terry Milewski who has spent decades tracking the Khalistani movement outside India.