Canada’s Carney to meet Modi in India amid trade uncertainty with US

Canada’s Carney to meet Modi in India amid trade uncertainty with US Canada’s prime minister and Indian prime minister will meet Monday in visit that marks diplomatic shift It’s not often that the leaders of two countries which have traded accusations of murder, extortion and terrorism meet only months later on friendly terms. But amid what he had described as a “rupture in the world order”, Mark Carney , Canada’s prime minister, will on Monday meet Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to repair strained ties between their nations. The visit marks a stark shift by both countries, which have been locked in diplomatic stalemates for more than a year and a half. It comes, however, as both countries find themselves locked in spats with their largest trading partner: the United States. The India visit marks Carney’s second such trip in as many months. In January, Carney led a delegation of ministers and senior provincial leaders to China in an attempt to reset relations with Beijing, underscoring his government’s efforts to hedge trade uncertainty with the US. Carney has used much of his time in office signalling to other nations the need to restructure political and economic relations in the face of weakened international institutions and shifting alliances. Despite sharing the world’s largest unprotected border and one of the most integrated economies on the planet, the US under Donald Trump has repeatedly bullied Canada, prompting Carney to pledge a doubling of Canada’s non-US exports within the next decade – hence his government’s interest in India. “India is the most populous country in the world right now and by most accounts the fastest growing big economy in the world,” said Partha Mohanram, director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto. “It’s a tremendous country to hitch your wagon to. Most other economies in the world, even if they’re rich, are extremely stagnant because of demographics. A deal with India gives you a big piece of a ...