Canada-India Joint Assertion: Renewing momentum in direction of a stronger partnership

October 13, 2025 – New Delhi, India – Global Affairs Canada

Today, Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and India’s Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, issued this joint assertion:

“At the invitation of the Minister for External Affairs, Dr. S. Jaishankar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Ms. Anita Anand, undertook, an official go to to India from October 12 to 14, 2025.

“The assembly in New Delhi is a comply with as much as the steering supplied by the Prime Ministers of the two international locations throughout their assembly on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, to take calibrated measures to revive stability within the relationship and to pursue a constructive and balanced partnership grounded in respect for one another’s considerations and sensitivities, robust people-to-people ties, and rising financial complementarities.

“Pursuant to this steering, either side initiated a number of steps, together with the joint announcement of reinstatement of High Commissioners on August 28, 2025, assembly between the National Security Advisers of the two international locations on advancing India-Canada safety cooperation in New Delhi on September 18, 2025, and the settlement to proceed senior official-level discussions on safety and legislation enforcement cooperation, pre-Foreign Office Consultations between Secretary (East) and Canada’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi on September 19,2025, and a gathering between the two Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly high-level week in New York on September 29, 2025.

“In conserving with the priorities that the Prime Ministers of India and Canada had set out for bringing momentum to the connection, either side, based mostly on mutual respect for shared democratic values, the rule of legislation, and a dedication to upholding the ideas of sovereignty and territorial integrity, reached consensus on a New Roadmap for India-Canada relations.

“The Ministers acknowledged that within the context of ongoing world financial uncertainty and rising geopolitical tensions, a powerful and resilient India-Canada bilateral relationship is crucial. Reviving this partnership won’t solely create alternatives for enhanced financial cooperation but additionally assist mitigate vulnerabilities arising from shifting world alliances, guarantee extra dependable provide chains, and reinforce strategic stability in an more and more complicated worldwide surroundings.

“The Ministers famous with satisfaction the substantial enhance in bilateral commerce, which reached $23.66 billion in 2024; and the increasing presence of Indian and Canadian enterprises in one another’s markets, producing jobs with important potential for future progress. They additionally acknowledged the necessary function performed by Canadian provinces, six of which keep illustration in India, and by Indian states in advancing mutually helpful financial cooperation. The Ministers agreed to work intently collectively and instructed their respective groups to provoke essential steps to implement the agreed roadmap.

“Affirming commerce as a cornerstone of bilateral financial progress and resilience, and acknowledging the rising alternatives in items, companies, and funding, either side agreed that early initiatives in commerce cooperation will embrace:

• Commencing, at an early date, ministerial-level discussions on bilateral commerce and funding knowledgeable by right now’s financial realities and every nation’s strategic priorities.
• Resuming the Canada–India CEO Forum, which is able to deliver collectively main enterprise executives from each international locations to establish concrete, actionable suggestions for each governments to facilitate elevated bilateral commerce and funding, with a concentrate on precedence sectors akin to clear know-how, infrastructure, agri-food, and digital innovation. The Forum will convene on the margins of a senior-level commerce mission in early 2026.

“Recognizing their shared imaginative and prescient of a sustainable future and underscoring the significance of collective motion in addressing local weather change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution, either side agreed to:

• Increase bilateral cooperation on local weather motion, environmental safety and conservation.
• Collaborate, alternate info and experience and assist respective local weather ambitions in a variety of areas, together with renewable vitality capability, decarbonizing heavy industries, decreasing plastic air pollution, supporting the sound administration of chemical compounds, and making certain sustainable consumption.
• Support joint local weather and environmental targets by discovering efficient, long-term options that will even present alternatives to advance financial progress and job creation.

“Acknowledging the pivotal function of vitality transformation in assembly local weather targets, enhancing vitality safety, and supporting sustainable financial growth, the two sides reaffirmed their intention to assist sector actions and deepen cooperation in advancing clear, safe, and equitable vitality collaboration by means of the next actions:

• Re-establish the Canada-India Ministerial Energy Dialogue, together with the associated Action Plan on the earliest.
• Promote two-way commerce for LNG & LPG and funding in oil and gasoline Exploration & Production sector, together with clear applied sciences.
• Collaborate on sustainable low-carbon fuels and applied sciences, akin to inexperienced hydrogen, biofuels, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage and electrical mobility—in addition to strengthen provide chains, coverage frameworks, and market entry.
• Exchange finest practices on electrical energy system administration to reinforce grid security, stability, and renewable integration.
• Work collectively on emission discount, environmental administration, energy sector digitalization, and catastrophe resilience.
• Advance world vitality effectivity course of, together with by means of multilateral fora such because the G20.
• Promote dialogue amongst authorities, trade, and thinktanks to establish how Canada’s mining experience can present India with vital minerals wanted for vitality safety.
• Welcome and recognize ongoing discussions in civil nuclear cooperation in assist of unpolluted vitality transitions.
• Welcome discussions between India’s Department of Atomic Energy and Canadian uranium suppliers, from the standpoint of present and proposed new mines.
• Hold the primary Critical Minerals Annual Dialogue on the margins of the Prospectors and Developers Association Conference in Toronto in March 2026.

“Appreciating the function of innovation and know-how in driving inclusive progress and world competitiveness, either side agreed to deepen collaboration to unlock new frontiers in S&T together with AI and digital infrastructure. Early initiatives will embrace:

• Relaunch the Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee. 
• Foster mutually helpful partnerships to develop entry to AI for everybody.
• Encourage Canadian AI firms and researchers to take part in India’s forthcoming AI Impact Summit from February 19 to twenty, 2026.
• Explore alternatives for cooperation in digital public infrastructure.

“Recognizing the significance of deepening collaboration within the agricultural sector to advertise meals safety, improve commerce and productiveness, enhance farmers’ incomes, and assist the long-term sustainability of the sector, either side agreed to concentrate on:

• Developing secure and sustainable provide chains, bettering agri-value chains by means of the alternate of finest practices and technological cooperation, enhancing dietary safety, selling recycling of agri-waste into vitality and natural fertilizers, and advancing innovation in climate-resilient agriculture and meals methods

“Noting with satisfaction that people-to-people linkages are central to fostering mutual understanding and constructing long-term collaboration, either side agreed to strengthen cooperation in training, tourism, cultural alternate, {and professional} mobility. Early initiatives on this regard will embrace:

• Refreshed collaboration in increased training and analysis to replicate the more and more deep expertise swimming pools and cutting-edge analysis in every nation.
• Emphasis on analysis partnerships in rising applied sciences (akin to AI, cybersecurity, and fintech), and to develop Canadian educational presence in India by means of abroad campuses.
• Revitalized Joint Working Group on Higher Education as a method to additional develop Canada–India educational networks and institutional ties.

“To this finish, the Ministers agreed that their High Commissions and Consulates will strengthen institutional capability by progressively deploying experience within the financial, political, defence, and know-how domains to ship on the shared formidable agenda. These efforts will contribute to rebuilding belief and deepening cooperation between the two international locations.

“As the bilateral relationship intensifies and deepens, both Ministers pledged to expand collaboration on global issues, including working to ensure more effective, and inclusive multilateral institutions.”