Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday that trade negotiations with India are advancing well. Both nations are targeting the conclusion of these talks by the G20 summit scheduled for mid-December.
Carney wants to double Canada’s non-US trade over the next decade and has made India part of a broader effort to reduce the country’s dependence on the United States as relations deteriorate under President Donald Trump.
Carney also said India had, to his understanding, confirmed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit Canada around that time, though the precise date had not been finalized. Carney wants to double Canada’s non-US trade over the next decade and has made India part of a broader effort to reduce the country’s dependence on the United States as relations deteriorate under President Donald Trump. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats amid the allegations. India denied involvement and accused Canada of harboring Sikh separatists.
The summit is scheduled for December 14-15 at Trump National Doral in Miami. The rapid economic rapprochement follows a deep diplomatic rupture over the 2023 killing of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia.
“We are making good progress in our trade negotiations with India,” Carney said at a news conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Carney said he and Modi had committed to try to conclude negotiations by the G20. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were credible allegations linking agents of the Indian government to Nijjar’s killing. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police later said it had evidence allegedly linking Indian government agents to homicides and other violent acts in Canada. Trudeau said Indian diplomats had collected information about Canadians that was passed to organized crime and resulted in violence.
