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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney volition apt sojourn India the archetypal week of March and motion deals connected uranium, energy, minerals, and Artificial Intelligence, Dinesh Patnaik, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, said successful an interview.
Mr. Carney is making each retired efforts to diversify Canada’s alliances beyond the U.S., its apical commercialized partner. In Davos past week, helium earned a uncommon lasting ovation for saying the old rules-based bid is implicit and called connected mediate powers similar Canada to physique coalitions to signifier a fairer, much resilient world. His viral code followed an statement with China to slash tariffs connected electrical vehicles and canola, and unfastened up to Canadian $7 cardinal ($5.11 billion) successful export markets arsenic helium tries to treble non-U.S. exports implicit the adjacent decade.
Mr. Carney is besides resetting relations with India aft his predecessor Justin Trudeau accused the Indian authorities of engagement successful the sidesplitting of a Sikh separatist person successful 2023. India has denied those claims.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the G7 acme connected Mr. Carney’s invitation successful 2025, and respective of Mr. Carney’s Ministers person travelled to India.
“I person a feeling successful the archetypal week of March is what we are looking at,” India’s High Commissioner Mr. Patnaik said connected Mr. Carney’s sojourn during a play interview. Mr. Carney’s bureau declined to comment.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said connected Sunday (January 25, 2026), Mr. Carney would sojourn Australia successful March to code Parliament. Canada’s Energy Minister Tim Hodgson is visiting India this week and said the timing of Mr. Carney’s travel was not yet set.
“There are plans for the Prime Minister to sojourn astatine immoderate constituent this year, it will beryllium connected the advancement we make,” Mr. Hodgson said successful a Sunday (january 25, 2026) interview.
Formal negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India should besides commencement successful March, Mr. Patnaik said. The countries agreed to restart stalled commercialized talks successful November 2025.
Mr. Carney volition motion smaller agreements with the Indian authorities connected atomic energy, lipid and gas, the environment, AI and quantum computing, arsenic good arsenic deals connected acquisition and civilization during his visit, Mr. Patnaik said.
A 10-year Canadian $2.8 cardinal uranium proviso woody is apt to beryllium included, helium added.
Mr. Hodgson did not corroborate the deal, but said Canada is blessed to merchantability uranium nether the Canada-India atomic practice statement arsenic agelong arsenic India is prepared to abide by International Energy Agency safeguards.
“We cognize that India is a large atomic state and it has large plans to turn its civilian usage of atomic energy,” Mr. Hodgson said. “So that would beryllium 1 of the topics I expect that we volition sermon with my counterpart.”
Between Mr. Hodgson’s sojourn and Mr. Carney’s, some countries volition beryllium announcing agreements astir vigor and mining, Mr. Patnaik said, adding that a pact connected captious minerals, crude and LNG transactions volition beryllium the astir salient ones.
“We request to absorption connected economies that are ample and growing. India squarely falls into that category. India is simply a increasing idiosyncratic of captious minerals that Canada tin supply,” Mr. Hodgson said.
Sense of urgency
Both countries are moving with a consciousness of urgency aft 2 years of stalled talks, and a renewed impetus to determination accelerated to marque definite countries deed by U.S. tariffs forge their ain path, Mr. Patnaik said.
“Now we are surviving successful a satellite wherever the earthy rules-based order, which gave a certainty to the world, is not functioning,” helium said, referring to Mr. Carney’s code astatine Davos.
“[We] should enactment unneurotic to person an statement that protects america from the vagaries of the planetary order,” helium added.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday (January 24, 2026) threatened 100% tariffs connected Canada if it signed a woody with China. Mr. Carney responded that Canada respects its commitments nether the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to not prosecute Free Trade Agreements with non-market economies.
Mr. Patnaik said India is also seeking caller agreements. India and the EU are expected to denote connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) the decision of protracted negotiations for a escaped commercialized pact.
Within a twelvemonth of starting ceremonial negotiations with Canada, a CEPA pact could beryllium signed, Mr. Patnaik added.
India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are besides apt to sojourn Canada precise soon, helium said.
Mr. Patnaik said that determination is simply a tribunal lawsuit ongoing successful Canada connected 4 radical accused of the execution of Sikh separatist person Hardeep Singh Nijjar. If grounds comes retired that determination were Indians involved, India volition instrumentality action, helium said.
He said India’s National Security Advisor volition sojourn Ottawa successful February arsenic portion of regular engagements betwixt the 2 countries to speech quality and sermon information measures.
