Canada and India are reopening trade talks after a two-year freeze, with both sides aiming for what Ottawa calls a “new process”, Canadian Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said on Thursday in New Delhi.
Sidhu met Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal for what he described as a productive discussion on cooperation in critical minerals, clean energy, agriculture, aerospace and artificial intelligence.
He said the shift follows the arrival of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government and changing global dynamics. “It’s a new government, a new focus, a new mandate,” Sidhu said.
The minister said Canada welcomes Indian investment in its critical mineral and energy sectors, stressing that the country holds all the materials needed to build an electric battery.
Talks had been suspended in 2023 after relations soured over the killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but both sides now appear ready to move forward.
Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in June 2023 by masked gunmen in a busy car park in a Vancouver suburb.
Then Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau alleged that the Indian government was involved in the plot, sparking a diplomatic row between the two countries.
Two-way trade reached about $31 billion in 2024, driven mainly by Canada’s $16 billion in services exports.
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Swedes vote in an election on Sunday (13 September) that could see the far-right enter government for the first time if the country's right-wing parties can form a majority.
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Indonesian rescuers are searching for 130 people after a passenger ship carrying 243 people sank in the Java Sea following bad weather, while 113 people have been evacuated and six have died, the country’s search and rescue agency said on Sunday.
China will lead the creation of an open source platform among BRICS members to promote cooperation on large language models, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday.
Swedes vote in an election on Sunday (13 September) that could see the far-right enter government for the first time if the country's right-wing parties can form a majority.
Philippine rescuers recovered 41 more charred remains from a ferry fire on Saturday (12 September), taking the death toll to 76, while 13 people remained unaccounted for as forensic teams worked to identify the victims.
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