NEW DELHI - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will seek to reset strained ties and push efforts to diversify trade beyond the United States when he meets his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Monday.
The talks in New Delhi are expected to cover trade and investment, clean energy, defence, critical minerals and artificial intelligence, officials from both sides have said.
A major focus will be reviving negotiations for a long-discussed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
Speaking to business leaders in Mumbai on Saturday, Carney said the planned deal, which he was looking to seal by the end of the year, could double bilateral trade by 2030.
"This visit marks the end of a challenging period, and more importantly, the beginning of a new, more ambitious partnership between two confident and complementary nations," he said.
Carney's visit is a key step forward in ties that effectively collapsed in 2023 after Ottawa accused New Delhi of orchestrating a deadly campaign against Sikh activists in Canada.
India's foreign ministry said Carney's visit marked a "significant step" in strengthening relations.
India is seeking to attract more overseas investments and says Canadian pension and wealth funds have already invested $73-billion.
Energy-hungry India -- the world's most populous country, with 1.4 billion people -- hopes Canada can support its ambitious plan to expand nuclear power capacity.