Modi Confirms G7 Visit To Canada, Signals Reset In India-Canada Ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday, June 6, 2025, that he will be attending the upcoming G7 summit in Canada. In a post on X, he expressed his pleasure at receiving a call from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and said he looks forward to their meeting at the summit.

Modi emphasized that India and Canada, as vibrant democracies with strong people-to-people connections, will collaborate with renewed energy, guided by mutual respect and shared interests. He also congratulated Carney on his recent electoral victory in Canada.

The G7 meeting holds additional significance as Modi is expected to meet UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Ahead of this, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is scheduled to visit Delhi on June 7-8, during which both countries are expected to sign the Free Trade Agreement finalized last month.

This summit comes at a critical time for India-Canada relations, which had suffered after then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged in 2023 that India had a possible link to the killing of pro-Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Meanwhile, the Congress party recently criticized India's absence from the G7 meeting in Canada as "yet another big diplomatic bungle," following the perceived error of allowing the U.S. to mediate between India and Pakistan.

The G7 is an assembly of seven leading industrialized nations: the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy.