Transport Minister Anita Anand.Photo by Jean Levac/Postmedia/File

Canada lifts extra screening measures for passengers flying to India, Anita Anand's office says

'For security reasons, specific details regarding these temporary measures cannot be disclosed'

by · National Post

Two days after alerting Canadians that air travellers to India would be subjected to extra security screening, federal Transport Minister Anita Anand’s office says those safeguards have been withdrawn.

“The measures for passengers traveling to India have now been lifted,” Anand’s press secretary, Laurent de Casanove, wrote in an email to the National Post on Thursday.

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