Canadian PM Mark Carney’s visit to India… meeting with Prime Minister Modi will remove the dust on relations

Mark Carney India Visit Schedule: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to start his foreign tour of three countries from February 26. This important journey will start from India in which he will mainly visit Mumbai and New Delhi. In India, he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and try to give a new direction to mutual diplomatic relations. His main goal is to further strengthen the strategic partnership with India in the Indo-Pacific region.

new beginning in relationships

Bilateral relations with India had become quite tense during the reign of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After the allegations of murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the year 2023, the distance between the two countries had increased a lot. After this, in October 2024, both the countries took the very strict step of recalling each other’s diplomats.

Carney’s new vision

After Mark Carney became the Prime Minister, there is full hope that the bitterness between India and Canada will reduce. Under Carney’s leadership, both countries have begun the process of redeploying high commissioners to their capitals. His visit to India is a big step towards strengthening not only economic cooperation but also defense and strategic partnership.

business and investment goals

In the year 2024, India was Canada’s seventh largest trading partner and the total trade was $30.8 billion. Now the common goal of both the countries is to take this bilateral trade beyond 70 billion dollars by the year 2030. The visit will discuss new partnerships, especially in the fields of business, energy, technology and artificial intelligence.

important official meetings

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be part of high-level bilateral talks with PM Narendra Modi during his stay in Delhi. In this meeting, many important issues related to cultural cooperation and security are also sure to be discussed in detail. Carney will also meet with key leaders from Canada’s business sector to identify new investment opportunities.

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Defense and future cooperation

Now there is special focus of both the countries on developing a new partnership in the defense sector between India and Canada. This visit of Prime Minister Carney will continue till March 7 and after India, he will visit two other countries. Experts believe that this visit is the beginning of a golden new era in bilateral relations after the Trudeau controversy.