Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney in June 2025 on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders’ Summit at Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada. File
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will journey to Mumbai and Delhi this week, as a part of a three-nation tour to India, Australia and Japan geared toward enhancing and diversifying Canada’s commerce relations, his workplace introduced on Monday (February 23, 2026).
Mr. Carney is predicted to land first in Mumbai on February 27, and meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on March 2, and focus on “new partnerships in commerce, vitality, know-how and synthetic intelligence (AI), expertise and tradition, and defence”, an announcement launched in Ottawa mentioned. The go to to 3 of Canada’s “strongest Indo-Pacific companions”, who’re all a part of the Quad with the U.S., can also be a big push for Canada’s personal Indo-Pacific coverage.
“In a extra unsure world, Canada is concentrated on what we will management. We’re diversifying our commerce and attracting huge new funding to create new alternatives for our employees and companies,” Mr. Carney was quoted as saying concerning the 10-day go to to all three international locations. “We’re forging new partnerships overseas to create higher certainty, safety and prosperity at dwelling,” he added.
Forward of the go to, Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held talks along with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand on the sidelines of the Munich Safety Discussion board final week.
Through the go to, Mr. Carney is predicted to concentrate on India-Canada commerce negotiations for a complete financial partnership settlement, funding alternatives, cooperation in fossil gasoline and nuclear vitality, in addition to important minerals know-how. He will even search to place behind years of distrust and sharp rhetoric between the Modi authorities and his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, whose final go to to India for the G-20 summit in 2023 proved to be significantly acrimonious over the Khalistan subject.
Final 12 months, Mr. Modi’s go to to Canada for the G-7 outreach and assembly with Mr. Carney started the method of repairing ties, which the return go to this week is predicted to finish, officers mentioned.
Thaw in ties
In what was seen as a specific breakthrough, Nationwide Safety Ajit Doval visited Canada in early February, after years of India-Canada tensions over the killing of Khalistani separatist chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023, that the Canadian police accused the Indian authorities of orchestrating by means of brokers there. The trial of 4 males who’ve been arrested for the killing is predicted to start later this 12 months, however in an indication that the Canadian authorities desires to be delicate to India’s issues over the case, the Canadian Lawyer Basic has, based on native experiences, requested permission to suppress sure proof disclosures as they could possibly be “injurious to worldwide relations and nationwide safety”.
In an announcement concerning the assembly between Mr. Doval and his counterpart Nathalie Drouin, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs didn’t refer on to the case however mentioned that they “agreed to a shared workplan to information bilateral cooperation on nationwide safety and regulation enforcement points and to allow sensible collaboration on respective priorities”.
Mr. Carney will meet Mr. Modi for official talks on Monday and fly that night to Australia, to debate cooperation on “defence and maritime safety, important minerals, commerce, and superior applied sciences, together with AI” with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and tackle the Australian Parliament, earlier than travelling to Tokyo to satisfy newly re-elected PM Sanae Takaichi.
Mr. Carney’s go to comes a month after his journey to Beijing, the place Canada and China restored commerce ties, visas, and lowered restrictions on Chinese language electrical automobiles after his talks with Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. It additionally follows a significant downturn in ties with the U.S. over tariffs and counter-tariffs, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of Canada, which he referred to final 12 months because the U.S.’s “51st state”.
In an tackle to the World Financial Discussion board in Davos in January, Mr. Carney’s sharp criticism of U.S. “hegemony” had additionally sparked a spherical of tensions. On Monday (February 23, 2026), in an indication of the poor state of relations, the U.S. White Home celebrated the U.S.’s hockey win over Canada with {a photograph} of an eagle attacking a duck, meant to symbolise each international locations, because it mocked a submit from just a few years in the past by then PM Trudeau.
Revealed – February 23, 2026 10:52 pm IST