India-Canada: Expert says ‘seems like Canada wants to teach India a lesson…’

India-Canada relations: Foreign Affairs expert Robinder Sachdev has alledged that it “seems like Canada wants to teach India lesson”. Speaking to ANI, Sachdev said that Canada is “spewing global propaganda” against India and trying to show the west, “that India is becoming a threat to our western dominated order”.
“What India is saying is that the Canadian intelligence is gathering intelligence about Indian diplomats. My point is that there is a commission of enquiry right now going on Canada regarding all these foreign influences and failures of their intelligence,” Sachdev told ANI.
He added, “Canadian intelligence should be investigated to see how they are carrying out these activities. The Parliament of Canada should know how its intelligence is operating…maybe there are some gaps…maybe some foreign powers have influenced the intelligence…”
Sachdev further speculated, “It seems like Canada wants to teach India a lesson…they are spewing global propaganda against us…maybe they are trying to push back at India and show to the west, that is America and England particularly that India is becoming a threat to our western dominated order.”
In its latest allegation, the Justin Trudeau government in Canada has designated India as a “cyber adversary” and added it to a list of hostile nations in cybersecurity. India condemned this move, calling it an attempt to tarnish its international reputation.
India is named fifth after China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in the recently releasesd survey ‘National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026’
India is also mentioned in the trend on ‘Geopolitically inspired non-state actors are creating unpredictability’ citing as example how a pro-India hacktivist group claimed to have defaced and conducted brief attack against Canadian websites after India was accused of involvement in the killing of a Canadian citizen.
The report said, “India’s leadership almost certainly aspires to build a modernized cyber program with domestic cyber capabilities. India very likely uses its cyber program to advance its national security imperatives, including espionage, counter-terrorism, and the country’s efforts to promote its global status and counter narratives against India and the Indian government. We assess that India’s cyber program likely leverages commercial cyber vendors to enhance its operations.”
“We assess that Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors likely conduct cyber threat activity against Government of Canada networks for the purpose of espionage. We judge that official bilateral relations between Canada and India will very likely drive Indian state-sponsored cyber threat activity against Canada.”
It also said, “countries that aspire to become new centres of power within the global system, such as India, are building cyber programs that present varying levels of threat to Canada.”
(With inputs from ANI)