Their families will go home with them.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melonie Joly told reporters that 41 diplomats and their families will be returned home from India.
Indian authorities, Joly noted, have lifted diplomatic immunity for those diplomats. About 20 diplomatic representatives will remain in India.
"India has formally submitted its plan to lift diplomatic immunity from all but 21 Canadian diplomats <...> from October 20," the minister clarified.
She noted that New Delhi had violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, but Ottawa would not respond in a mirror-like manner and would continue to work with India.
Earlier, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said that the number of Canadian and Indian embassy staff has been set at parity. There are 21 Indian diplomats working in Canada, therefore the number of Canadian diplomats in India will be reduced to this number.
Recall, the relations between India and Canada escalated after Ottawa's decision to expel an Indian diplomat allegedly linked to the death of the leader of the Sikh community in British Columbia, Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India has denied the allegations.