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Canada and India agreed to designate new high commissioners and restore regular diplomatic services to citizens in both countries, after a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside the G7 summit in Alberta.
The prime minister’s office confirmed the move in a reading of the meeting on Tuesday.
Canada expelled six Indian diplomats and consular officials last fall, after the news that the police had linked to the agents of the Indian government with a campaign directed against Canadian citizens.
India He expelled the interim Canadian high commissioner in New Delhi and five other Canadian diplomats the past fall in response, and the positions have remained vacant since then.
India has been indicated by Canadian intelligence officials as a prolific perpetrator of foreign interference in Canada, including transnational repression, a problem that G7 leaders pointed out in one of several joint statements issued as their completed summit.
When his bilateral meeting began, Carney said it was “a great honor” house Modi in the G7.
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“It is a testimony of the importance of its country, its leadership and the importance of the problems we seek to address,” said Carney, pointing out that it includes the energy transition, the future of AI and the fight against transnational repression and terrorism.
Speaking through a translator, Modi said he thinks joining the G7 summit was a great opportunity to serve the global good.
“I think India-Canada’s relations are extremely important, and India and Canada should work together,” said Modi, and said that both countries represent democratic values.
Modi called the meeting with Carney “excellent” in A publication on social networks.
“India and Canada are connected by a strong belief in democracy, freedom and the rule of law,” he wrote in X. “Prime Minister Carney and I hope to work closely to add impulse to the friendship of India-Canada.”
Carney invited Modi to the Summit along with several other world leaders who are not part of the G7. Modi’s visit caused a strong protest of the Sijs separatist groups.
In 2023 and 2024, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the RCMP said there was evidence that linked the Indian government agents with the murder of the Canadian separatist activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, BC, in June 2023.
Last October, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme said the police force had evidence that linked Indian government officials with other crimes in Canada, including extortion, coercion and homicide.
G7 leaders pointed out in a joint statement that they are “deeply concerned about the growing reports of transnational repression,” defined in the declaration as an aggressive form of foreign interference in which the states or their representatives try to intimidate, harass, damage or coincide with the people outside their edges.
The declaration condemns all forms of transnational repression, which may include a variety of activities from murder to cybernetic cybervilance.
Ask member countries to inform about transnational repression in the public reports of the rapid response mechanism of the G7, and develop a framework to cooperate to counteract such activities.
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