INDIA
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is on a week-long visit to India, will today meet business honchos in Mumbai where he will discuss investment opportunities in Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is on a week-long visit to India, will today meet business honchos in Mumbai where he will discuss investment opportunities in Canada.
Before embarking on a 7-day visit to India, Trudeau had said his trip would focus on creating good jobs and strengthening the deep connection between the people of the two countries.
In 2017, two-way merchandise trade between Canada and India amounted to USD 8.4 billion, split equally between exports to and imports from India (USD 4 billion each).
A number of Canadian pension funds are also keen to invest in India.
After spending two days in Agra and Gujarat, Trudeau landed in Mumbai on Monday evening. He will today meet Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran; CEO and MD of Infosys Salil Parekh; Chairman of Mahindra Group Anand Mahindra; Hari Bhartia, Founder and Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Group; Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group and Shapoorji Pallonji Group's Cyrus Mistry.
Later in the afternoon, Trudeau will participate in a women business leaders’ roundtable discussion. He will also participate in an armchair discussion at the Canada-India Business Forum.
After concluding his meetings with business leaders, the Canadian CM will hold talks with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Later in the evening, Trudeau and his wife Sophie will attend a film industry influencers event where they will meet top producers of Bollywood to explore various opportunities in the field of cinema.
The Canadian leader who is accompanied by his wife Sophie and their three children - Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien - offered prayers at the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar yesterday.
They spent nearly half an hour at the Akshardham temple here and offered flowers to the deity. Trudeau family reached Mumbai from Ahmedabad on Monday evening.
He also visited the Sabarmati Ashram, the place where Mahatma Gandhi lived and from where he ran the non-violence movement. Dressed in traditional Indian clothes, they also tried their hand at Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel.
He also attended an event at IIM-Ahmedabad and held a meeting with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani as part of his day-long visit to the state.
On Sunday, the Trudeau family had visited the Taj Mahal and Mathura wildlife sanctuary.
The Canadian PM will travel to Amritsar tomorrow where he will visit the Golden Temple and meet Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. He will return to Delhi the same day.
Trudeau is scheduled to visit Jama Masjid and a cricket ground in Delhi on February 22 besides delivering a lecture at a gathering of Canadian and Indian business leaders.
He will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Modi on February 23.
A number of Trudeau's cabinet colleagues including Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan, Science and Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan and Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi are also visiting India.
The ties between India and Canada have been on an upswing. Approximately 1.4 million Canadians are of Indian heritage and India is Canada's second largest source of immigrants.
Canada is also a leading education destination for Indian students, and India is the second largest source of international students, an estimated 124,000 in 2017, as per official figures.
(With PTI inputs)
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