Good morning everyone. I’m Mark Iype, filling in for Wendy Cox this week.

Today marks exactly one year since the Canadian government expelled India’s high commissioner and five other diplomats from Canada, citing RCMP allegations linking them to homicides, extortions and other violent criminal activities in the country.

Canadian officials indicated that the diplomats were forced to leave because India did not co-operate with police investigations.

In response to Canada’s expulsions, the Indian government sent six Canadian diplomats home and angrily rejected Ottawa’s claims, calling them “preposterous” and politically motivated.

The diplomatic tit-for-tat was a dramatic step in the crumbling of relations between the two countries after the murder of Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. in June, 2023. Justin Trudeau, prime minister at the time, alleged that Indian government agents killed Nijjar.

But over the Thanksgiving weekend, Foreign Minister Anita Anand met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior ministers in New Delhi to set out a “new roadmap” to reset relations between the two countries. Anand was in India for a few days before heading to China, where she will meet with that country’s foreign minister to work on soothing that trade relationship, which has also soured in recent months.

On social media, Anand said Canada and India are working to revive a relationship “grounded in our ongoing law enforcement dialogue and growing economic partnership opportunities including in the areas of energy, trade and AI.”

Her counterpart, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said in remarks from his meeting with Anand that India’s plan “is to move forward with a positive mindset,” and that “India-Canada bilateral relations have been steadily progressing in the last few months.”

The relationship really began to thaw in June when Prime Minister Mark Carney invited Modi to Alberta for the G7 summit. Then, in recent months, high commissioners were reinstated in both countries, and after their national-security advisers met in New Delhi, India committed to co-operate and share information with Canadian police investigations.

The 1,200-word joint statement released by India and Canada on Monday outlines a number of ways the two countries plan “to restore stability in the relationship.”

The roadmap includes further talks on bilateral trade and investment, co-operation on climate action and trade in oil and gas, a revival of the Canada–India CEO Forum to bring together business executives, partnerships on artificial intelligence, as well as “refreshed collaboration” in higher education.

The two countries also addressed Canada’s concerns about encroachments on its sovereignty, citing “mutual respect for shared democratic values, the rule of law, and a commitment to upholding the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

As John Stackhouse argued in an opinion piece for The Globe two weeks ago, renewing the relationship isn’t simple: “the two countries are on different economic, social and geopolitical wavelengths.”

Both countries, he said, will need “to recognize what they bring to each other.”

Anand’s trip this week is perhaps a step in that direction. Especially as both countries recognize the shifting sands of global trade, spurred by the more protectionist vision of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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