Opinion: Canada should have invited Narendra Modi to the G7 Leaders’ Summit

At last year’s G7 meeting, Italy seized the chance to strengthen ties with Asia by inviting India to the summit. By excluding India this year, Vina Nadjibulla writes, Canada would lose an opportunity to expand its range of partnerships.

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Vina Nadjibulla is vice-president of research and strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

With Canada hosting the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Alberta later this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney faced an early foreign-policy test: whether to invite India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.