OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to India has helped pave the way for a complete reset of Canada-India relations, India’s trade minister said Monday. The ties were strained under Carney’s predecessor in the wake of the 2023 killing of a Sikh activist in Canada. The remarks by India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, who is visiting Canada, came as he met with Canada’s International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu. More than 100 senior business representatives from India’s mining, energy, automotive and aerospace sectors accompanied Goya, a team New Delhi says is its largest-ever business delegation to Canada.“This is a partnership that is being reset very, very rapidly,” Goyal said Monday. He said Carney’s visit in late February — the first visit by a Canadian prime minister in eight years — “completely changed the way Canada and India looked at each other.”
“It has set in motion the pathway to a complete overhaul of this relationship, setting new agendas, new goals,” he said.Canada and India have been in trade talks since 2010. Talks were shut down by Ottawa in 2023 after Canadian authorities alleged that India was involved in the killing of Canadian Sikh activist Hareep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver in June that year.
