India, Nov. 2 -- Canada's cabinet ministers have condemned the brazen targeting of minister of foreign affairs Anita Anand during a protest organised by the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto on Friday.

As SFJ staged protests outside Indian's missions in Canada on Friday, what stood out was the targeting of Anand, who has been carrying out Prime Minister Mark Carney's policy of engaging with India as part of an overall attempt to diversify from the trade dependence on the United States.

Among the posters on display during a protest outside India's Consulate in Toronto on Friday was one showing Anand and late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. That was juxtaposed to a tableau showing the late PM...