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A time aft inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the upcoming G7 meeting successful Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said India is the fifth-largest marketplace successful the satellite and truthful had to beryllium included successful the summit, which volition spot the information of the world’s starring economies.
Prime Minister Carney highlighted India’s planetary stature successful economical and commercialized spheres and said India is among the starring mainstream planetary powers and added, “As seat of the G7, it is important to invitation the astir important countries to be to speech astir important issues specified arsenic energy, artificial intelligence, captious minerals, and India is truly astatine the precise centre of planetary proviso chains,” Mr. Carney said during an enactment with reporters.
Prime Minister Carney had invited PM Modi done a telephone telephone that took spot connected Friday (June 6, 2025). PM Modi thanked his Canadian counterpart for the invitation to the G7 acme successful Kananskis, Alberta and said, “As vibrant democracies bound by heavy people-to-people ties, India and Canada volition enactment unneurotic with renewed vigour, guided by communal respect and shared interests.”
Mr. Carney’s comments came during an enactment with the media wherever questions were raised astir the ongoing probe into the killing of pro-Khalistan activistic Hardeep Singh Nijjar connected 18 June 2023, which the erstwhile Canadian authorities of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed connected Indian authorities actors.
Mr. Nijjar, who was a salient Khalistan proponent successful Surrey, was changeable and killed by chartless assailants connected 18 June 2023 adjacent the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurudwara wherever helium served. He was a salient advocator of the Sikhs for Justice Campaign. In May 2024, Canadian constabulary arrested 3 persons - Kamalpreet Singh, Karanpreet Singh and Karan Brar - who were allegedly members of a deed squad that changeable Mr. Nijjar. The probe into the lawsuit besides linked the execution with different killings that took spot successful Canada astir the aforesaid time.
Prime Minister Carney refused to respond to a question that linked the decease of Mr. Nijjar with the Indian enactment and said, “There is simply a ineligible process that is virtually nether mode and rather precocious successful Canada, and it’s ne'er due to marque comments with respect to those ineligible processes.”
India-Canada relations nosedived successful September 2023 erstwhile the then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian “agents” of being liable for the execution of Mr. Nijjar. The consequent diplomatic spat continued for respective months and yet led to the reciprocal withdrawal of High Commissioners from each other’s diplomatic missions successful New Delhi and Ottawa. Despite India’s soundlessness astir the investigation, Mr. Carney claimed that some sides person resolved to person “continued instrumentality enforcement dialogue”.
Published - June 07, 2025 06:33 p.m. IST
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