India-Canada relations hit rock bottom after then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in 2023, alleged a potential Indian link to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
New Delhi rejected Trudeau’s claims as “absurd”.
In October 2024, India recalled its high commissioner and five other diplomats after Ottawa sought to connect them to the Nijjar case. In response, India also expelled an equal number of Canadian diplomats.
However, Liberal Party leader Mark Carney’s victory in the parliamentary election in April last year helped initiate efforts to reset ties. Subsequently, both countries reinstated their high commissioners in each other’s capitals.
In June last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Kananaskis in Canada to attend the G7 summit, where he and Carney held extensive discussions on the sidelines, focusing on rebuilding bilateral relations.
