I don’t think this is a case of minority appeasement. You do realise classified information received from national intelligence agencies cannot be released to the public. It would be idiotic for him to release it to the press until it gets declassified. Intelligence agencies in Canada are not politically affiliated and have an information sharing network with the CIA, FBI, MI6 etc. From what I understand, the issue was raised to the Indian government weeks back through diplomatic channels but it was shrugged off. I’m no Trudeau fan but he’s 100% right. An assassination by a foreign government on Canadian soil undermines Canada’s sovereignty and none of the political parties in Canada are supportive of that. In fact, this would unite all Canadians, left and right, against India. It’s already done that. It has got to be the most idiotic move made by the Indian government in ages since they neither have the espionage capabilities of the US nor Israel. Once the information is made public, it could sour India and West relations.
Look, all you have right now is True-dough's words. Nothing else.
As far as "Classified" bullshit goes, why to open the can of worm even before investigation is complete? Why not wait before you are ready to charge perpetrators in court of law and get a conviction? May be extradition requests if needed? May be sanctions request from allies if charges on perp are proven in Canadian court of law?
The only reason given, and this has been mentioned publically by a MP/Minister from LPC, is because the story was going to break out in media.
Which means only two things:
1. Either he is covering his lower posteriors and trying to prevent another scandal on his party by pre-empting a news from breaking out.
2. He is lying through his teeth and this ploy is only to make him look strong and gain sympathy.
Both of them are self-serving goals for JT and NOT Canada. The second one looks more plausible because he has been saying that he will raise this issue of interference with India even before G20 meeting. No media will wait for a week to publish the story. So LPC's reason to go public seems weird.
I was reading else where as well, and some folks make absolutely valid point on this stupidity of laying "potential" charges on an entire country EVEN before investigation is complete. He just torpedoed the entire criminal case! It is now no longer "Who killed the victim" and now it is "Is India lying or Canada lying?". Can now anyone expect a proper investigation? Will ANY Canadian investigation do an honest work when they know that at this moment, they will have to disagree with their boss publically and make him look stupid if they find India innocent.
Both the investigation and whatever comes out of it is now biased, tainted and unreliable. The investigation is now invalid because he just made all investigator in a serious conflict of interest. Either they find India culprit or they make Canada look really stupid in front of whole world.
In short, it is a clusterfuck by JT and his regime.