The missteps during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent visit to India are multiplying. According to a columnist in the Ottawa Citizen, among these mistakes was a map of India used at the official dinner reception at the Canadian High Commissioner’s residence in New Delhi had deleted the entire State of Jammu & Kashmir.
In his column, commentator Terry Glavin noted that “mercifully overlooked last week: a map of India displayed at last Thursday night’s High Commission party in New Delhi omitted the Indian State J&K — the shell-shocked, heavily militarised Muslim-majority Indian State that Pakistan claims as its own territory.”
He went on to write, “Imagine the Indian High Commission in Ottawa throwing a party and showing off a huge map of Canada with Quebec missing, and you get the picture.”
This was yet another instance of that reception causing embarrassment for Team Trudeau during his eight-day tour across India.
Earlier, of course, Jaspal Atwal, who was convicted in 1987 of an attempt to murder a visiting minister from Punjab, featured in the list of those invited for the do. This flag fracas will only add to friction between the two governments.