Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand says Canada and India will move quickly to get a trade deal after two years of strained relations
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand says Canada and India will move quickly to get a trade deal after two years of strained relationsCanada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, middle, introduces Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand, left, during a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 Summit , in Johannesburg, Sunday, Nov.
23, 2025. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday that Canada and India will move quickly to advance a trade deal after two years of strained relations, noting Ottawa has a new foreign policy in response toat the Group of 20 summit in South Africa this past weekend, where the leaders agreed to restart stalled talks for a new trade deal.“The leaders were adamant that this work proceed as quickly as possible so that timing is going to be expeditious,” Anand said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.over the next decade. Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and more than 75% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S. Most exports to the U.S.“This is a completely new approach to foreign policy that is responsive to the global economic environment in which we find ourselves,” Anand said. “There is a new government, a new foreign policy, a new prime minister and a new world order where countries are becoming more protectionist and this is a moment for Canada as a trading nation."In 2023, Ottawa suspended trade talks after going public with allegations from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that the Indian government was behind an assassination of Nijjar, 45, was fatally shot in his pickup truck after he left the Sikh temple he led in Surrey, British Columbia. An Indian-born citizen of Canada, he owned a plumbing business and was a leader in what remains of a once-strong movement to create an independent Sikh homeland.“This is a step by step process. And in the last six months, significant steps have been taken,” Anand said. Anand said both countries expect to be able to double bilateral trade by 2030, to US$50 billion, and noted that Canada is India’s seventh largest trade partner for goods and services, and one of the largest foreign investors in India.in the U.S., which upset him. That followed a spring of acrimony, since abated, over the president’s insistence that Canada should become“We are operating under the fact that the United States has fundamentally changed all of its trading relationships," Anand said. “We look forward to getting back to the table.”
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