Canadian PM Mark Carney is expected to visit India in the first week of March to sign deals on uranium, energy, minerals, and artificial intelligence, an official said on Monday.
"I have a feeling in the first week of March is what we are looking at," said Dinesh Patnaik, India's High Commissioner to Canada, to Reuters. However, no date has been fixed yet.
He added that one of the main aims of Carney's visit was to start formal negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India in March. The countries have also agreed to restart stalled trade talks in November.
Smaller agreements on nuclear energy, oil and gas, the environment, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing will also be signed in March, in addition to deals on education and culture.
This comes amid Canada's worsening tensions with the Donald Trump administration in the US over the former developing ties with China, and is widely perceived as Ottawa's attempt to diversify its trade ties beyond Washington.
Despite the release of an accusatory report by Canada's intelligence agency against India back in June 2025, the two have been repairing diplomatic ties since then. The report had claimed that transnational repression played “a central role in India's activity in Canada”.
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The bid to repair ties after they had soured during Justin Trudeau's time as Canada's PM saw the two sides agree to reinstate top diplomats, and Indian PM Narendra Modi attend the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Alberta that year.
Tensions between Carney and Trump, however, have worsened after the latter's threat of 100 per cent tariffs managed to dissuade the Canadian PM from signing a trade deal with China.
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The deal would have seen Canada ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, which it had imposed simultaneously with the US in 2024. In exchange, China would have lowered the retaliatory tariffs on key Canadian agricultural products.
This comes after Carney's viral speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in which he said that America's dominant role in the world was fading, and that it was time for a "new global order" to take shape. He had been referring to Washington's plans to acquire Greenland, which threatens the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
