Because of all the secondary explosions from the total detonation of diplomatic relations between Canada and India in recent days, the thing that’s getting in the way of a clear understanding of what’s going on is that you can’t tell the players without a program.

Actually, it’s not the only thing. The whole story is being put to the purpose of a long-standing popularity contest between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau, and merely noticing Canada’s unclean hands in the contest is to risk coming to the attention of the authorities at Global Affairs’ foreign-interference watchdog, the Rapid Response Mechanism.