Prime Minister Mark Carney is travelling to India, Australia and Japan this week in his latest effort to cultivate trade ties as he seeks to wean Canada off its economic dependency on the US.
Carney will begin the trip in India on Thursday, his office said, meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He will then travel to Australia to meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and address Australia's parliament - the first such speech by a Canadian PM in nearly 20 years. The trip will end in Tokyo, where Carney will meet Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
It is the latest in a string of global trips by Carney in recent months amid trade tensions between Canada and the US.
It also marks a significant shift in Canada-India ties, which deteriorated after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused New Delhi of killing a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil in 2023.
