Canada’s PM faces backlash for inviting India’s Narendra Modi for G7 summit

Mark Carney declined to answer if he believed Indian PM had a role in murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada's federal police's that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia was orchestrated by the highest levels" of the Indian government.

Carney declined to answer reporters' questions over whether he believed Modi had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar - a killing on Canadian soil that shattered relations between the two countries.