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India is the largest source for international students in Canada, their numbers jumping 47% last year to 320,000, according to Reuters.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a plumber who left the north Indian state a quarter-century ago and became a Canadian citizen, was shot dead in June outside a temple in a Vancouver suburb where he was a separatist leader among the many Sikhs living there. India had labelled Nijjar a “terrorist” in 2020.