Matt Gurney: Carney has hard time explaining Canada’s position towards India

Matt Gurney/The Hill Times: There is, as noted, a really simple explanation for this: ruthlessly pragmatic politics. This is a classic example where the government is very clearly pursuing a strategy—namely a reset of our relationship with India—while also trying not to provoke any political backlash among that segment of the electorate that will be angered by such a reset. If governments were more in the habit of simply speaking blunt truth, they would probably just come out and announce that, yes, it was awful that we had to do this, and we wouldn’t be cozying up to India in a perfect world. But, given the obvious realignment of geopolitical forces, we need India on our side, and we’re prepared to throw some of our own people under the bus in order to accomplish that…