Controversy With India

There was a recent controversy where a Canadian from the department of Foreign Affairs tasked with screening visas for our country declined visas for members of the Indian military for reasons that the average Canadian would ceratainly agree with. It caused a great cafluffle in India that resulted in a diplomatic incident where, probably fearing declines in economic trade, our government did not stand by the decision and the person who had investigated the issues but disavowed the decisions and cowtowed to the Indian point of view.

In an Indian newspaper article Canada was acused of 'bogus moral posturing'. I tried to email the newspaper but the online link appears to have been 'bogus'- and I can only conclude that asking for feedback was just posturing.

I have posted the response I tried to send below:

Hello! Warm regards from Canada!
While very large in land mass, Canada has a small population in comparison to India. We also have a short history but we are trying to get that history right. We, as a nation, are attempting to do something we feel is important and that is to set up a country (we are less than 150 years old) where some fundamental things are observed and cherished. I refer now, not to the politicians or the professional opinion makers but average Canadians who cherish the things that your great leader Mahatma Gandhi cherished. We have many ways of living in this country. Many opinions are accepted and accommodated but we are trying to make a fundamental line in the sand for those things that are not acceptable. We want to err on the side of caution because we know we will not always get it right.
We cannot always know what other people have lived through, what the decisions of their lives led them to do but it is within our rights to say 'please do not bring those ways of being here because they are not our way and we are not equipped to understand or tolerate them." I ask you "Would Gandhi have embraced the people that were turned away from Canadian visas?" If so, I am sorry for the position we have taken and I hope you will forgive us for Gandhi said "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." If he would not have endorsed these people, perhaps you can understand why we fear those ways of thought or action enough to deliberately exclude them and the people who carry them. "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Mahatma Gandhi Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
India and Canada have a bright and cooperative future ahead of us for we are both peoples of good will. I hope we will continue this dialogue in a positive manner because every choice we make affects the future of our relationship and of our world.
P.S.I have a favour to ask you. Could you help me understand why Gandhi is called Gandhi G? It would help me to understand your culture more fully.