Canada did not provide adequate security to consular camps for Indian-diaspora: MEA

The Consulate General of India in Toronto, Canada cancelled some of the scheduled consular camps after the the security agencies conveyed their "inability to provide minimum security protection" to the community camp organisers.

The External Affairs Ministry on Thursday confirmed the cancellation of some of the scheduled consular camps in view of the security agencies conveying their inability to provide minimum security protection to the community camp organisers.

"You would have seen the message posted by our consulate in Toronto that they have had to cancel the consular camp that they were planning to organise over the weekend because they did not get adequate security or security assurance from the government," Randhir Jaiswal, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, said in a weekly press briefing in the national capital.

"We have a large diaspora in Canada. Many of these people, especially around the months of November, and December. They need documentation for the continuation of their pensions and several other activities here in India. So this consulate camp that we do is helpful to the community, to both people of Indian nationality and people who are of Indian origin but Canadian nationals today, " he added. 

"I do understand that in other parts of Canada, Vancouver for example, the consular camps will be conducted. These consular camps are conducted at the request of the community organizations. So where the community organization is comfortable, we will go ahead with these consular camps," he noted.

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