India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official familiar with the matter said Tuesday, ramping up a confrontation between the two countries over Canadian accusations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver. …

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last month that there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a 45-year-old Sikh leader who was killed by masked gunmen in June in Surrey, outside Vancouver. For years, India has said Nijjar, a Canadian citizen born in India, has links to terrorism, an allegation Nijjar denied.

[India has also cancelled visas of Canadians traveling to their country. Interestingly, Canada hasn’t retaliated for that, and now they say they will not retaliate for the diplomatic ejections today. That would suggest that the Trudeau government wants to cool this off, and that suggests that they got out over their skis in the first place. — Ed]