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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney volition question to Mumbai and Delhi this week, arsenic portion of a three-nation circuit to India, Australia and Japan aimed astatine enhancing and diversifying Canada’s commercialized relations, his bureau announced connected Monday (February 23, 2026).
Mr. Carney is expected to onshore archetypal successful Mumbai connected February 27, and conscionable with Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful Delhi connected March 2, and sermon “new partnerships successful trade, energy, exertion and artificial quality (AI), endowment and culture, and defence”, a connection released successful Ottawa said. The sojourn to 3 of Canada’s “strongest Indo-Pacific partners”, who are each portion of the Quad with the U.S., is besides a important propulsion for Canada’s ain Indo-Pacific policy.
“In a much uncertain world, Canada is focused connected what we tin control. We are diversifying our commercialized and attracting monolithic caller concern to make caller opportunities for our workers and businesses,” Mr. Carney was quoted arsenic saying astir the 10-day sojourn to each 3 countries. “We are forging caller partnerships overseas to make greater certainty, information and prosperity astatine home,” he added.
Ahead of the visit, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held talks with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand connected the sidelines of the Munich Security Forum past week.
During the visit, Mr. Carney is expected to absorption connected India-Canada commercialized negotiations for a broad economical concern agreement, concern opportunities, practice successful fossil substance and atomic energy, arsenic good arsenic captious minerals technology. He volition besides question to enactment down years of mistrust and crisp rhetoric betwixt the Modi authorities and his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, whose past sojourn to India for the G-20 acme successful 2023 proved to beryllium peculiarly acrimonious implicit the Khalistan issue.
Last year, Mr. Modi’s sojourn to Canada for the G-7 outreach and gathering with Mr. Carney began the process of repairing ties, which the instrumentality sojourn this week is expected to complete, officials said.
Thaw successful ties
In what was seen arsenic a peculiar breakthrough, National Security Ajit Doval visited Canada successful aboriginal February, aft years of India-Canada tensions implicit the sidesplitting of Khalistani separatist person Hardeep Singh Nijjar successful June 2023, that the Canadian constabulary accused the Indian authorities of orchestrating done agents there. The proceedings of 4 men who person been arrested for the sidesplitting is expected to statesman aboriginal this year, but successful a motion that the Canadian authorities wants to beryllium delicate to India’s concerns implicit the case, the Canadian Attorney General has, according to section reports, requested support to suppress definite grounds disclosures arsenic they could beryllium “injurious to planetary relations and nationalist security”.
In a connection astir the gathering betwixt Mr. Doval and his counterpart Nathalie Drouin, the Ministry of External Affairs didn’t notation straight to the lawsuit but said that they “agreed to a shared workplan to usher bilateral practice connected nationalist information and instrumentality enforcement issues and to alteration applicable collaboration connected respective priorities”.
Mr. Carney volition conscionable Mr. Modi for authoritative talks connected Monday and alert that evening to Australia, to sermon practice on “defence and maritime security, captious minerals, trade, and precocious technologies, including AI” with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and code the Australian Parliament, earlier travelling to Tokyo to conscionable recently re-elected PM Sanae Takaichi.
Mr. Carney’s sojourn comes a period aft his travel to Beijing, wherever Canada and China restored commercialized ties, visas, and reduced restrictions connected Chinese electrical vehicles aft his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. It besides follows a large downturn successful ties with the U.S. implicit tariffs and counter-tariffs, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s disapproval of Canada, which helium referred to past twelvemonth arsenic the U.S.’s “51st state”.
In an code to the World Economic Forum successful Davos successful January, Mr. Carney’s crisp disapproval of U.S. “hegemony” had besides sparked a circular of tensions. On Monday (February 23, 2026), successful a motion of the mediocre authorities of relations, the U.S. White House celebrated the U.S.’s hockey triumph implicit Canada with a photograph of an eagle attacking a duck, meant to symbolise some countries, arsenic it mocked a station from a fewer years agone by past PM Trudeau.
