India is also Canada’s 10th-largest source of tourists and worldwide visitors, with 224,000 visits made from India to Canada in 2016.
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Trade between Canada and India has doubled in the last decade to just over $8 billion in 2016, a figure which India’s foreign ministry said “does not reflect true potential”.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ongoing India visit is being seen as getting largely snubbed by New Delhi, according to media reports. Two of four Sikh ministers in Trudeau’s cabinet Harjit Sajjan and Amarjit Sohi have both supported radical Khalistani elements in Canada. India also accused other Sikhs in Mr Trudeau’s cabinet of similar leanings. Margaret was 22 when she married the 51-year-old prime minister and was the subject of intense media scrutiny.
Later, Trudeau along with his family paid a visit to rescued elephants at a care centre run by animal welfare organisation Wildlife SOS in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura and said that India’s wildlife needs protection.
Trudeau’s appearances at events where it was believed Sikh separatist leaders were also present ruffled feathers in Delhi over the last two years, and the issue has been raised in private conversations between Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Interestingly, the Opposition Shriromani Akali Dal chief, Sukhbir Singh Badal, is expected to welcome the Canadian PM at the Golden Temple.
When Mr. Trudeau’s was asked about his meeting with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, a source close to the Canadian side, said that “uncertainties prevail” on this. Impressed and inspired by the place, the Canadian Prime Minister expressed the need peace, humanity and truth in the today’s world.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off his India tour by visiting the iconic Taj Mahal followed by a visit to an elephant conversation center in Mathura’s Churmura.
The Trudeau govt is actually reaching in order to fix barricades with an Indian political leader that has actually been implicated with involving Sikh separatists within its own cabinet. His trip is being viewed as a kind of outreach to the 1.4 million citizens of Indian-origin settled in Canada.
Diplomatic circles are aghast with media reports over the so-called snub to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who did not get the kind of reception in Delhi as they were hoping for him.
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Going beyond the government or political equations, it is the deep people-to-people contact involving cultural and economic ties on which the relationship will move ahead, Trudeau said.
