However much relations may warm between India and Canada, the country’s new high commissioner in Ottawa has made clear that an apology for the Nijjar assassination or other acts of violence Canada pinned on New Delhi won’t be forthcoming.

“India doesn't do things like this. It has never happened,” Dinesh Patnaik told CBC's Rosemary Barton Live last weekend, describing the allegations made by the RCMP and the Canadian government as “preposterous and absurd.”

The overwhelming body of evidence that contradicts those claims of innocence, due to be aired in a New York courtroom next March, appears to be no impediment to a rapid warming in relations between the two countries.

“Both prime ministers have taken this initiative to project the relationship forward,” Patnaik said follo

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