Joly and LeBlanc refused to comment on Pannun case

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said little Wednesday about the unfolding murder-for-hire plot and its echoes of a similar investigation in Canada.When it comes to what’s happening in the U.S., I won’t comment directly because of course, I respect the work that the American law enforcement agencies are doing and I respect also the independence of their legal system," she said.

We stand by our own credible allegations that there was the killing of a Canadian, on Canadian soil, linking to Indian agents."

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc deflected a barrage of questions about the indictment Wednesday as he arrived on Parliament Hill."I’m not going to discuss the details of what evidence has or hasn’t been handed over by a Canadian police agency to an international partner," he said.What I can say is that our expectation — and the prime minister said this in his first comments in September — is that the Indian government be fully engaged with Canadian law in this investigation."