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Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said connected Monday (November 24, 2025) that Canada and India volition determination rapidly to beforehand a commercialized deal aft 2 years of strained relations, noting Ottawa has a caller overseas argumentation successful effect to U.S. President Donald Trump's commercialized war.
Ms. Anand's connection follows a gathering betwixt Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the Group of 20 acme successful South Africa this past weekend, wherever the leaders agreed to restart stalled talks for a caller commercialized deal.
Relations betwixt Canada and India person been strained since Canadian constabulary accused New Delhi of playing a relation successful the June 2023 assassination of a Canadian Khalistani person adjacent Vancouver.
"The leaders were adamant that this enactment proceed arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable truthful that timing is going to beryllium expeditious," Ms. Anand said successful a telephone interrogation with The Associated Press.
Mr. Carney volition sojourn India aboriginal adjacent year.
Ms. Anand noted Mr. Carney's extremity to treble non-U.S. commercialized implicit the adjacent decade. Canada is 1 of the astir trade-dependent countries successful the world, and much than 75% of Canada's exports spell to the U.S. Most exports to the U.S. are exempted by the USMCA commercialized statement but that woody is up for reappraisal successful 2026.
"This is simply a wholly caller attack to overseas argumentation that is responsive to the planetary economical situation successful which we find ourselves," Ms. Anand said. "There is simply a caller government, a caller overseas policy, a caller Prime Minister and a caller satellite bid wherever countries are becoming much protectionist and this is simply a infinitesimal for Canada arsenic a trading nation." Canada is besides seeking amended relations with Beijing. Mr. Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping took a measurement toward mending the long-fractured ties betwixt their countries past period with a gathering astatine the Asia-Pacific summit.
In 2023, Ottawa suspended commercialized talks aft going nationalist with allegations from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that the Indian authorities was down the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, 45, was fatally changeable successful his pickup motortruck aft helium near the Sikh temple helium led successful Surrey, British Columbia.
Relations improved successful June erstwhile Mr. Carney invited Mr. Modi to the G7 acme successful Alberta and erstwhile some countries agreed to reconstruct their apical diplomats successful August.
"This is simply a measurement by measurement process. And successful the past six months, important steps person been taken," Ms. Anand said.
Ms. Anand said some countries expect to beryllium capable to treble bilateral commercialized by 2030, to $50 billion, and noted that Canada is India's seventh largest commercialized spouse for goods and services, and 1 of the largest overseas investors successful India.
Mr. Trump ended commercialized talks with Mr. Carney aft the Ontario provincial authorities ran an anti-tariff advertisement successful the U.S., which upset him. That followed a outpouring of acrimony, since abated, implicit the President's insistence that Canada should go the 51st U.S. State.
Ms. Anand said Canada remains acceptable to resume commercialized talks with Mr. Trump.
"We are operating nether the information that the United States has fundamentally changed each of its trading relationships," Ms. Anand said. "We look guardant to getting backmost to the table."
