Every month since Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death, a crowd of people has gathered in a barren grey car park behind one of North America’s biggest Sikh temples — a sombre meeting to remember their leader on the site where he was gunned down on June 18.
This week, the mood outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, a suburb 30km south-east of Vancouver, was altogether more febrile.
The change began on Monday, when Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, told the country’s parliament of “credible allegations” that linked the death of Nijjar, a prominent Punjabi separatist campaigner — and Canadian citizen — with “agents” of the Indian government.