Foreign Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar announced following talks with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York that the two nations were working toward strengthening their diplomatic ties. The discussions formed part of a broader push to translate a diplomatic rapprochement between the two countries into concrete agreements spanning trade, energy, technology, security, and education. Via social media, Jaishankar described the talks as fruitful and conveyed an aim to elevate bilateral relations, while no concrete agreements were announced in the immediate aftermath. The shift in bilateral ties between India and Canada over the past year has brought renewed high-level diplomatic contact and the establishment of fresh frameworks for economic and strategic collaboration. Following Anand's October 2025 trip to India, where the two nations unveiled a joint roadmap, Prime Minister Carney subsequently travelled to Mumbai and New Delhi to advance the initiative. The two leaders reached an accord on expanding bilateral ties across defence, security, and trade. The two leaders pledged to wrap up talks on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by 2026, with a shared target of lifting combined trade flows to $70 billion annually by 2030. Negotiations under the CEPA framework span a broad range of areas, covering trade in goods and services, investment, agriculture, digital commerce, mobility, and sustainable development. A strategic energy accord between the two nations spans liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, uranium, solar power, and hydrogen. One arrangement of particular note covers Cameco of Canada delivering close to 22 million pounds of uranium to India for nuclear energy generation across an eight-year window from 2027 to 2035, valued at approximately $2.6 billion. Planned areas of joint work span quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, aerospace, space exploration, higher education, critical minerals, and supply chain resilience. During his trip, Carney referred to India as one of the world's fastest-expanding economies and a leading force in international trade and technology. Beyond the political and economic dimensions, the two nations share a personal connection — over 1.8 million people living in Canada trace their heritage to India. Throughout 2024, India ranked as the top country of origin feeding into multiple Canadian immigration streams, among them study permit applications. Figures from Canada show that two-way merchandise trade totalled $10.9 billion in 2025, while the country's services exports to India amounted to $15.6 billion in 2024, with education-related travel accounting for a substantial portion of that total. Formal talks between the two administrations have been reinstated, covering a broad range of shared security priorities including counter-terrorism, organised crime, cyber threats, financial fraud, drug trafficking, and border enforcement.
