Minister's Faith Complicates Canada’s Relations With India

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, made much of appointing four Sikhs to his 30-person cabinet in 2015, boasting he had more than his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Singling out four of the 500,000 Canadian adherents to a religion that originated in the Punjab region of India about 500 years ago fits with Mr Trudeau's constant refrain that Canada's diversity is a source of strength. Yet it can lead to unexpected problems, as Harjit Sajjan, the defence minister (and a Sikh), discovered during a recent government mission to India, his country of birth.