RCMP says it has ‘strong evidence’ linking campaign of violence to the ‘highest levels’ of Indian government [Video]

The head of the RCMP says the Mounties have strong evidence showing the “highest levels” of the Indian government were involved in orchestrating a campaign of violence and intimidation on Canadian soil. 

“We do have strong evidence — not intelligence, but evidence — that this goes all the way up to the highest level,” Commissioner Mike Duheme told CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane on Friday.

“Some of the evidence I am referring to will eventually come out through the judicial process.” 

Duheme’s sit-down interview comes more than a week after he went public at a news conference with the RCMP’s investigation. The RCMP alleges agents of the Indian government were complicit in widespread crimes in Canada, including murder, extortion and intimidation.

Duheme said police evidence shows Indian diplomats and consular staff collected information and brought that information to the Indian government, at which point instructions would be fed to criminal organizations to carry out acts of …