Overview

• Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on July 13 that Canada will foreground domestic economic interests in its Indo-Pacific relationships while upholding its core values.
• Anand’s July 8 agreement in Tokyo established Canada’s first bilateral information-sharing pact with Japan, aimed at paving the way for defence procurement cooperation.
• Prime Minister Mark Carney invited India’s Narendra Modi to July’s G7 summit in Alberta and agreed to reinstate high commissioners, marking the end of a two-year diplomatic freeze.
• Security dialogue has restarted after mutual diplomat expulsions over RCMP allegations of Indian agents’ involvement in violence targeting Sikh Canadians.
• Business and policy leaders anticipate that Canada and India could finalise a bilateral free-trade agreement by the end of 2025 or early 2026 if negotiations maintain pace.