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Canada's foreign minister Anita Anand begins India visit for talks with Jaishankar

Trade, energy, security and people-to-people ties are on the agenda as Anand starts a four-day trip to India and the UAE. It will be her 11th meeting with Jaishankar since September 2025.

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Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (file photos)
Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (file photos)Photos: Joey Coleman / Wikimedia Commons; U.S. Secretary of Defense / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 and CC BY 2.0

Key points

  1. Anita Anand travels to India and the UAE from 13 to 16 October.
  2. Her talks with S. Jaishankar will be the pair's 11th meeting since September 2025.
  3. India and Canada are negotiating a trade deal they aim to finish by the end of 2026.

Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand begins a four-day trip to India and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, the latest step in a thaw between New Delhi and Ottawa that is now centred on a trade deal.

In New Delhi, Anand will meet External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to push forward a shared “roadmap” covering trade, energy, people-to-people ties, and security and defence cooperation, Global Affairs Canada said on Monday. It will be the two ministers’ 11th meeting since September 2025.

She will also speak on a panel about middle powers and the changing global order at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, before flying to the UAE. There she is due to meet Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, along with officials and business leaders. Ottawa said the trip aims to “deepen bilateral relations and cooperation with these countries.”

From freeze to trade talks

Relations between the two countries froze in 2023, and the repair work has moved quickly this year. Prime Minister Mark Carney visited India from 27 February to 2 March, the first bilateral visit by a Canadian prime minister in eight years. During that trip the two governments agreed the terms for negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and set a target of concluding it by the end of 2026. High Commissioners Dinesh K. Patnaik and Christopher Cooter are back at their posts.

Two-way trade between Canada and India was worth C$30.4 billion in 2025, including C$11.0 billion in goods, according to the Canadian government.

Security questions are being handled in separate dialogues, including a joint working group on counter-terrorism, so that the economic track can move on its own.

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