Federal Transport Minister Anita Anand says that, “out of an abundance of warning,” her ministry will probably be growing safety measures for folks travelling to India.
“Transport Canada has carried out momentary extra safety screening measures,” for travellers to India, Anand stated in a information assertion Monday night.
Passengers “might expertise some screening delays whereas these measures are in place.”
A authorities official tells Ontario Chronicle the extra measures will probably be carried out by the Canadian Air Transport Safety Authority (CATSA), the company chargeable for screening passengers and their baggage earlier than getting into the restricted areas of airports in Canada.
The official spoke on background as a result of they weren’t licensed to share the particulars publicly.
Among the many screening carried out by CATSA are hand swabs when a hint of an individual is required, sending carry-on luggage by way of X-ray machines, and bodily screening passengers.
Final month, an Air India flight from New Delhi to Chicago was diverted to Iqaluit due to a bomb scare. No bomb was discovered on board.
The assertion from Anand’s workplace didn’t make a connection to any incidents.
Her announcement comes a month after the RCMP claimed brokers of the Indian authorities have been complicit in widespread crimes in Canada, together with homicide, extortion and intimidation.
Canada expelled six Indian diplomats in October on the identical day RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme spoke of “nicely over a dozen” credible and imminent threats to members of the South Asian neighborhood, particularly members of the pro-Khalistan motion.
India has denied the RCMP’s allegations and shortly retaliated, ordering six Canadian diplomats to depart the nation.
