Modi to Talk Stronger Bilateral Ties with Canadian PM, To Reset Ties After Trudeau Controversies

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to discuss strengthening of bilateral ties with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, resetting the troubled relations between the two nations after the controversy caused by his predecessor Justin Trudeau over the killing of a Khalistan terrorists.

Carney began his four-day India visit from Mumbai on Friday (February 27, 2026), an official tour that is seen as an effort to rebuilding the bilateral relations that has remained strained since Trudeau made controversial remarks linking Indian diplomatic officials in the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey in July 2019.

Trudeau’s September 2023 attack on India inside the Canadian parliament derailed a carefully built bilateral ties, with both New Delhi and Ottawa taking strong diplomatic actions against each other’s diplomats, including expelling some of them in retaliatory actions.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday (February 26, 2026) released the Canadian Prime Minister’s itinerary, including a meeting with Modi and the agenda for discussions between the two democracies.

Carney’s official visit to India is a significant step that indicated a shift in how Canada views India as an important partner amidst a churn in geopolitics.

In fact, Canada had, after Carney took over, rejected an Indian involvement with crimes within its borders, thereby mending the ties damaged by Trudeau’s reckless actions as Prime Minister.

Modi had earlier invited his Canadian counterpart after months of strained relations when he was in Canada for a G7 meeting in Kananaskis in Canada in June 2025.

The Indian MEA said the two prime ministers would hold a summit meeting at the delegation level at the Hyderabad House during Carney’s visit and the two leaders would review progress in the bilateral ties across various subjects and sectors under the two nations’ strategic partnership.

They would build on their earlier meetings in Kananaskis in June 2025 and Johannesburg (South Africa) in November 2025.

Modi and Carney would also review the progress in the continuing cooperation in trade and investment, apart from energy, critical mineral, agriculture, education, research and innovation, and people-to-people ties.

These apart, the two leaders would exchange view on the fluid geopolitical situation, and on global developments.

They would jointly address the India-Canada CEOs Forum during the visit, which is aimed at instilling a fresh momentum to the relationship that remained strained for two years under Trudeau.