Justin Trudeau´s India trip suffered security shortfalls, new report finds
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

OTTAWA—A simple Google search would have revealed that a man who was convicted of attempted murder had been invited to hobnob with Justin Trudeau during the prime minister’s ill-fated trip to India, according to a new report.But there was no security vetting of the guest list, according to a review released Monday by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP).Furthermore, the RCMP did not tell Trudeau’s protective detail that it had received a tip days earlier that Jaspal Atwal would attend the event. The report says the RCMP now “recognizes that it erred� by not passing along the information about Atwal’s repeated brushes with the law.That string of errors led to Atwal attending the event, even though one officer concluded that his presence “significantly increased the risks� to the prime minister and other attendees.The committee’s findings, while heavily censored, paint the most detailed account yet of how Atwal — who was convicted of attempting to assassinate an Indian politician in the 1980s — found himself posing for pictures with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau at the Mumbai event on Feb. 20.Read more:Who is Jaspal Atwal? Man at centre of controversy over Trudeau’s India trip remains a political mysteryTrudeau’s top security adviser denies blaming Indian government for ‘conspiracy’ in Atwal affairConvicted Sikh extremist had been removed from India’s travel blacklist, Star toldThe Canadian High Commission in India had drawn up guest lists in preparation for the high-profile event in Mumbai with Trudeau and his delegation, and for another in Delhi. Less than a week before the trip, the prime minister’s office added 423 names to the list, including Atwal’s.The report found there was no systematic security review of the guest list. The names were not shared with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or the Mounties respo ...