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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Canadian counterpart Mark Carney present connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) and they agreed to unlock the imaginable for deeper practice successful defence and abstraction sectors, too advancing ties successful areas specified arsenic trade, investment, exertion and energy.
"Had a precise productive gathering with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada," Mr. Modi said successful a societal media station aft the gathering connected the sidelines of the G20 Summit here.
This was the 2nd gathering betwixt the 2 leaders. They earlier met successful June connected the margins of the G7 acme astatine Kananaskis successful Canada.
"We appreciated the important momentum successful our bilateral ties since our earlier gathering held during the G7 Summit hosted by Canada. We agreed to further beforehand our relations successful the coming months, peculiarly successful trade, investment, exertion and innovation, vigor and education," Mr. Modi said.
He said that India and Canada person large imaginable successful strengthening commercialized and concern linkages. "We person acceptable a people of $50 cardinal by 2030 for our bilateral trade. Canadian Pension Funds are besides showing keen involvement successful Indian companies," helium said.
The India-Canada bilateral commercialized surpassed $30 cardinal successful 2024.
In 2024, India was Canada's seventh-largest goods and services trading partner.
The 2 countries besides agreed to unlock the imaginable for deeper practice successful defence and abstraction sectors and conscionable again successful the adjacent future, Mr. Modi added.
"The 2 leaders welcomed the beardown momentum successful bilateral ties...," PM's bureau said.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said that the 2 leaders welcomed the adoption of Australia-Canada-India Technology and Innovation (ACITI) Partnership which would springiness a boost to trilateral practice successful the fields of captious technologies, atomic energy, diversification of proviso chains and AI.
They appreciated the renewed momentum successful ties since their June 2025 gathering successful Kananaskis connected the margins of the G7 Summit, and the motorboat of the New Roadmap for bilateral engagement by the Foreign Ministers successful October 2025, it said.
The 2 Prime Ministers discussed practice successful the fields of commercialized and investment, defence, education, space, subject and technology, and energy. Prime Minister Carney expressed enactment for the AI Summit to beryllium hosted by India successful February 2026.
"The leaders agreed to statesman negotiations connected a high-ambition Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), aimed astatine doubling bilateral commercialized to $50 cardinal by 2030. Both sides reaffirmed their longstanding civilian atomic practice and noted the ongoing discussions connected expanding collaboration, including done semipermanent uranium proviso arrangements," the MEA said.
The 2 leaders emphasized the value of regular high-level exchanges.
Prime Minister Modi extended an invitation to PM Carney to sojourn India.
Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand connected the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ gathering successful Niagara and discussed practice connected trade, energy, security, and people-to-people ties.
His travel to Canada came a period aft Ms. Anand visited India, during which some sides unveiled an ambitious roadmap to boost ties successful areas of trade, captious minerals and energy.
Canada's International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu besides visited India this period to research ways to beforehand bilateral commercialized and concern ties.
In 2024, India was Canada's seventh-largest goods and services trading partner.
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 his accusation arsenic "absurd".
The 2 sides person taken respective steps successful caller months to normalise their relations. They person besides agreed to revive respective mechanisms to beforehand relations successful a scope of areas.
