Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a parliamentary inquiry he wasn’t looking “to provoke or create a fight with India,” but said police and his government went public in a bid to halt ongoing violent acts.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at more length at a parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday about the diplomatic flare-up with India earlier in the week.

Canada’s police and government on Monday went public with more details in the dispute over an alleged murder of a Sikh independence activist on Canadian soil last year, in which Ottawa says agents of the Hindu nationalist government in New Delhi played a role.

Ottawa said it asked six Indian diplomats to leave the country, although India later said it had recalled them out of fear for their safety, and India in turn gave Canadian diplomats days to leave.