On Tuesday, the two leaders — Modi and Carney — held a telephone exchange described in official readouts as constructive, with both sides expressing a shared interest in advancing the relationship between the two countries. Writing via X, Modi described the exchange with Prime Minister Mark Carney as both cordial and fruitful, adding that the two nations are working toward a world that is more stable and prosperous.

The statement conveyed that both sides had committed to building on the favourable trajectory in bilateral relations between India and Canada, with a view to delivering tangible results across priority pillars of the Strategic Partnership — among them trade, energy, technology, security, and people-to-people connections.

The phone call between the two leaders took place shortly after David Morrison, who holds the role of Senior Diplomatic and International Affairs Advisor to Canada's Prime Minister, had wrapped up a visit to India. During the three-day visit spanning October 5 to 7, a meeting between Morrison and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in Delhi on October 6 produced a joint commitment to strengthen collaborative efforts across a broad range of shared concerns — among them transnational organised crime, terrorism, violent extremism, trafficking in people and narcotics, cybercrime, extortion, and the extradition of criminal offenders.

The 7 October MEA statement noted that both sides pledged to pursue further avenues of practical cooperation, among them the potential creation of dedicated forums on cyber security and economic security. Carney indicated that a visit to Canada by Modi is anticipated sometime in December.

Convened in Delhi, the gathering formed one session within a continuing series of bilateral security talks conducted at the national security adviser level. Two earlier rounds of this dialogue format were convened — one held at the national capital in September 2025, the other at Ottawa in February 2026.

At the meeting, both delegations took stock of where bilateral security and law enforcement cooperation stood — including how the joint Security Work Plan, finalised in February 2026, had been put into practice — and the joint statement conveyed that the two sides viewed the past year's exchanges as steady and productive, built on a foundation of mutual trust, attentiveness to each other's priorities, and a shared drive to deepen the relationship between them. Both Doval and Morrison expressed support for pushing the CEPA trade deal talks forward. Conversations between the two sides also touched on what both parties described as an expanding opening for building a meaningful defence partnership.

Ties between India and Canada deteriorated in 2023 after Trudeau, serving as prime minister at the time, publicly raised the possibility of an Indian government connection to the death of Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar. New Delhi characterised the allegation put forward by Trudeau as having no grounding in fact.

New Delhi pulled Sanjay Kumar Verma and five fellow diplomats from Ottawa in October 2024, following a move by Canadian authorities to connect them to the Nijjar investigation. India's government ordered an equivalent cohort of Canadian diplomatic staff to leave the country.

Carney's April parliamentary win, achieved under the Liberal Party banner, contributed to a restoration of diplomatic ties. Diplomatic representatives from each country have taken up posts in the other's capital. Ties between the two nations have strengthened in the period following Prime Minister Carney's trip to India in March.