Canada PM Mark Carney Signals Reset in India Ties If Re-Elected

Canada PM Mark Carney: Canadian Prime Minister candidate Mark Carney has signaled that he may reset relations with India if he returns to power. He emphasized the importance of the Canada-India relationship, highlighting its personal, economic, and strategic significance.

Responding to a question from the network Y Media on the weekend during a campaign event, Carney said, “It’s an incredibly important relationship, the Canada-India relationship, on many levels. On the personal level, with Canadians having deep personal ties, economically, strategically.”

“Government is about making priorities and given the scale of the economic crisis that we’re facing, the security crisis we’re facing, our commitment to supporting Canadians through a range of social programs… Candidly, it is not in the platform,” Carney stated in Sault Ste. Marie is effectively placing electoral reform on the back burner for the time being.

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His words, while pragmatic to some, have reignited the long-simmering debate about Canada's electoral system, a debate that has seen broken promises and deep divisions.

“I think… a prime minister should be neutral on these issues, so that a process, if a process is developed, that they are objective and not to be seen to tip the scales in one direction or another,” Carney said. “I think that… looking back on what happened previously, that probably is part of what stalled progress on it,” he added.

He did not directly address the festering matter of the killing of pro-Khalistan figure Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, on June 18, 2023, but suggested differences that led to the cratering of ties could be resolved.

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He said, “There are strains on that relationship that we didn’t cause, to be clear, but there is a path forward to address those with mutual respect and to build out.”

Obviously, his remarks came against the backdrop of threats, including those of tariffs, from US President Donald Trump.

“I’ll say this from experience, at this point where the world economy but also the global system has been shaken, is being reshaped, countries like Canada, like India specifically can play an outsize role in building an open, shared economy, shared ideas, a shared relationship. And I think the opportunity for that will be created because of the negative events that have happened, I’m speaking specifically of the trade war,”

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