‘For security reasons, specific details regarding these temporary measures cannot be disclosed’
Two days after alerting Canadians that air travellers to India would be subjected to extra security screening, federal Transport Minister Anita Anand’s office says those safeguards have been withdrawn.
“The measures for passengers traveling to India have now been lifted,” Anand’s press secretary, Laurent de Casanove, wrote in an email to the National Post on Thursday.
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When questioned about the reason for the quick security shift, de Casanove, said: “For security reasons, specific details regarding these temporary measures cannot be disclosed.”
India has denied the RCMP’s allegations. Both countries expelled each other’s top diplomats.
In October, an Air India flight headed to Chicago from New Delhi was diverted to Iqaluit because of a bomb threat. An inspection didn’t turn up an explosive device.
However, Anand’s office did not connect that incident with the announcement of new, now lifted, measures.
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