A four-day trip to India and the United Arab Emirates, running from 13 to 16 October, has been scheduled for Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, with the government in Ottawa pointing to expanded bilateral ties and cooperation as the purpose behind the visit. A scheduled meeting between Anand and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to push forward shared roadmap goals spanning trade, energy, people-to-people ties, and security and defence cooperation. By the time of the planned visit, the two foreign ministers would have convened eleven times since September 2025, a pace of contact pointing to an active and deepening channel between the two countries. A panel discussion on middle powers and the shifting global order, hosted by the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, is among the engagements on her schedule. According to a government statement, the minister plans to advocate for multilateral and plurilateral cooperation amid shifting geopolitical conditions, while also positioning Canada as a dependable partner for India and the wider Indo-Pacific region. Trade flowing between Canada and India across 2025 totalled $30.4 billion, with the goods component of that exchange accounting for $11.0 billion of the overall figure. On the export side, vegetables, mineral fuels and oils, and wood pulp drove CAD 3.9 billion worth of merchandise flowing from Canada toward India in 2025, while goods moving in the opposite direction reached a total of CAD 9.7 billion. Scheduled talks between Anand and Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan — who holds the posts of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs — form the centrepiece of her UAE trip, with the agenda spanning bilateral ties, economic cooperation, and security matters, alongside separate engagements with senior government figures and representatives from the business community. Talks between Ajit Doval, who serves as National Security Adviser, and David Morrison, the Senior Diplomatic and International Affairs Advisor to the Canadian prime minister, produced a shared commitment by both countries to strengthen cooperation across areas including transnational organised crime, terrorism, violent extremism, and the extradition of offenders.
