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India and Canada volition look astatine establishing a model for “strategic” practice successful areas of trade, vigor and information during Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s sojourn to New Delhi opening Sunday (October 12, 2025).
Ms. Anand volition clasp wide-ranging talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal focusing connected boosting bilateral ties successful a scope of areas, officials said.
India volition beryllium Ms. Anand’s archetypal halt successful her three-nation circuit that volition instrumentality her to Singapore and China arsenic well.
In New Delhi, Ms. Anand volition conscionable with Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Goyal, arsenic “both countries determination toward establishing a model for strategical practice connected issues specified arsenic commercialized diversification, vigor translation and security”, a Canadian readout said.
“Minister Anand volition besides question to Mumbai, India, wherever she volition conscionable with Canadian and Indian firms moving to enactment investment, occupation instauration and economical accidental successful Canada and India,” it said.
The Canadian Foreign Minister’s travel to India comes implicit 3 weeks aft Canada’s National Security Advisor Nathalie Drouin visited India and held extended talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval.
Days aft the Doval-Drouin meeting, Canada designated the Lawrence Bishnoi pack arsenic a violent entity for “violently targeting” definite communities and creating a “climate of fearfulness and intimidation”.
The renewed vibrancy successful the ties betwixt the 2 countries followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney connected the margins of the G7 acme astatine Canada’s Kananaskis successful June.
The India-Canada relations deed stone bottommost pursuing past Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations successful 2023 of a imaginable Indian nexus to the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India had dismissed Trudeau’s accusation arsenic “absurd”.
In October past year, India recalled its precocious commissioner and 5 different diplomats aft Ottawa attempted to nexus them to the Nijjar case. India besides expelled an adjacent fig of Canadian diplomats.
However, Liberal Party person Mr. Carney’s triumph successful the parliamentary predetermination successful April helped successful opening the process to reset relations.
Both sides person already posted their precocious commissioners successful each other’s capitals. The 2 countries besides agreed to revive respective mechanisms to beforehand relations successful a scope of areas.
In Singapore, Ms. Anand volition conscionable her Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan, to further fortify Canada’s practice with “one of its astir important partners” successful Southeast Asia, the Canadian readout said.
In China, she volition conscionable Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi to proceed engagement connected the bilateral narration arsenic Canada and China people 55 years of establishing diplomatic ties, it said.
“This gathering builds connected the committedness made by Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Premier of China, Li Qiang, to regularise channels of connection betwixt the 2 countries,” it said.
“The ministers volition sermon the Canada-China Strategic Partnership, the evolving bilateral and planetary context, arsenic good arsenic issues of value to the Canadian economy,” it added.
