Canada Expels Russian Diplomats in Response to British Poison Attack

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland issued strong words against Russia’s nerve-agent attack in the United Kingdom last week. She is seen here during a joint news conference on the closing of the seventh round of NAFTA talks in Mexico City, Mexico on March 5, 2018. Reuters/Edgard Garrido

OTTAWA—Canada has joined the United States and many European countries in expelling several Russian diplomats following a nerve-agent attack in the United Kingdom last week that left a former Russian spy and his daughter in critical condition.

Four Russian diplomats will be told to leave and three others will not be given permission to start working in Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement Monday.