New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting India from February 27 to March 2, 2026, on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is Carney’s first official go to to India, aiming to strengthen bilateral ties and discover new partnerships, in accordance with a press launch issued by the Ministry of External Affairs.
As per the MEA launch, Carney will arrive in Mumbai on February 27. Over the subsequent two days, he’ll take part in separate enterprise engagements, work together with Indian and Canadian CEOs, trade and monetary consultants, innovators, educators, and Canadian Pension Funds based mostly in India.
On March 1, the Canadian Prime Minister will journey to New Delhi. Delegation-level talks between the 2 leaders are scheduled for March 2 at Hyderabad House.
According to the MEA, the discussions will overview progress beneath the India-Canada Strategic Partnership, constructing on earlier conferences between the 2 leaders in Kananaskis in June 2025 and Johannesburg in November 2025. The talks will cowl key areas of cooperation, together with commerce and funding, vitality, vital minerals, agriculture, training, analysis and innovation, in addition to people-to-people ties. Regional and world developments are additionally anticipated to determine within the discussions.
Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Carney will even attend the India-Canada CEOs Forum on March 2.
The MEA famous that the go to comes at an essential juncture within the normalisation of India-Canada bilateral relations. Both leaders have beforehand agreed to pursue a constructive and balanced partnership grounded in mutual respect for issues and sensitivities, sturdy people-to-people ties, and rising financial complementarities.
The forthcoming assembly, the MEA mentioned, will present a chance to reaffirm the optimistic momentum and shared imaginative and prescient of India and Canada in constructing a forward-looking partnership.
In a big shift in its place, the Canadian federal authorities has mentioned that it now believes India is not linked to violent crimes in Canada. A senior official mentioned this throughout a media briefing forward of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s upcoming go to to India, the Toronto Star reported.
The assertion got here throughout a briefing with journalists forward of Carney’s journey, with senior authorities officers, cited by the Canadian English every day Toronto Star.
‘We have a really sturdy diplomatic engagement, together with between nationwide safety advisers, and I believe we are able to say we’re assured that that exercise just isn’t persevering with,’ one of many senior officers, who didn’t need to be named, mentioned on Wednesday.
According to the report, the assertion means that Canadian authorities don’t see ongoing overseas interference or violent exercise tied to India at current.
Carney will journey to India, Australia and Japan from February 26 to March 7, an official assertion from Carney’s workplace mentioned on Monday.
The remarks come as Carney prepares for stops in Mumbai and New Delhi, the place he’s scheduled to satisfy Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The go to is being framed as a part of Ottawa’s effort to pursue a extra ‘pragmatic’ overseas coverage and deepen financial ties with India, the world’s most populous nation.
Relations between the 2 nations deteriorated sharply after the June 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar outdoors a gurudwara in British Columbia. Months later, then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned there was ‘credible’ proof linking brokers of the India authorities to Nijjar’s loss of life, an allegation New Delhi strongly denied.
The dispute led to the expulsion of diplomats from each nations and a protracted diplomatic standoff. In 2024, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) additional claimed that Indian authorities brokers have been linked to violent crime in Canada, together with loss of life threats and alleged involvement in homicides.
However, officers briefing reporters this week advised that earlier issues about energetic overseas interference or repression linked to India are not ongoing.
‘I actually do not suppose we might be taking this journey if we thought these sorts of actions have been persevering with,’ a senior authorities official mentioned.
India’s High Commissioner to Ottawa, Dinesh Patnaik, informed the Star that disagreements ought to be dealt with by dialogue slightly than by damaging the general relationship, suggesting that Canada had overreacted when the allegations first emerged.
Earlier on Tuesday, talking to ANI forward of Carney’s go to to India and different Indo-Pacific allies, Patnaik mentioned that the latest discussions between the 2 nations’ National Security Advisors, throughout NSA Ajit Doval’s go to to Ottawa, marked a big step ahead in strengthening bilateral safety ties.
‘This was mentioned just lately when NSA Ajit Doval visited Canada, and he had very in depth discussions together with his counterpart, NSA Nathalie Drouin, in addition to the Minister for Public Safety. And I believe what they’ve put collectively is an excellent motion plan to take ahead the safety cooperation between either side to handle all issues–whether it is fentanyl smuggling, whether or not it’s transnational organised crime, violent extremism, unlawful immigration fraud, cybercrime, or cybersecurity,’ the Indian High Commissioner mentioned.
‘We are taking a look at cooperation in all sectors. Both sides have understood that if we’ve got to make Canada secure and India secure, we have to talk about and discuss all the problems, have liaison officers with one another, and have cooperation which is on time and on-line,’ he added. (ANI)