CTV National News for Thursday, March 19, 2026: Is India involved in foreign interference in Canada?

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A source pushes back bluntly: "It's gaslighting" to say India is no longer active in Canada.

CTV National News begins with the latest turn in the foreign interference debate tied to India and Canada. The opening frames the issue as a renewed national concern, not a settled one. The RCMP commissioner speaks exclusively to CTV News. His comments are used to clarify what the force says it has in its holdings. He says, in effect, that there are people intimidating and harassing others. The report sets that statement beside earlier government language that said India was no longer involved in foreign interference. It also points to the tension with what CSIS has said. The story is linked to Mark Carney’s trip to India. That trip included talk of billions of dollars in deals and an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Canada. The segment keeps the focus on how security concerns and diplomacy are moving side by side. From there, the broadcast shifts into other major national and international developments. It covers the war in Iran and questions about whether U.S. ground troops could be deployed and how long the conflict might last. It also includes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who argues that a ground component is necessary. The program then turns to Canada’s defense minister and questions about possible damage to Canadian assets after a strike in Kuwait. He says he learned about the media report while overseas and later clarifies that he was referring to the report itself, not the strike. The defense segment stays focused on what the government knew, when it knew it, and what it can say publicly. Another report looks at the widening impact of the war on energy infrastructure in the Middle East. It describes attacks near Saudi Aramco sites and the pressure those strikes are putting on oil markets. The show then moves to a lighter but still pointed close on happiness rankings. Canada has slipped on the World Happiness Scoreboard. The segment asks why Canadians may be feeling worse and contrasts that with the Nordic countries, especially Finland. The hour ends with a broad snapshot of the day and a brief sign-off that keeps the broadcast-news format intact.

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A brisk national-news hour that turns a security dispute into a wider scan of Canada’s day.

CTV National News opens on India and foreign interference in Canada, with an exclusive interview with the RCMP commissioner and a clear sense of the gap between federal messaging and what CSIS has already said.

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