MUMBAI — Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in India as his government continues its bid to restore a stronger relationship with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Carney is also set to visit Australia and Japan on the 10-day trip, which is also his first international trip since his headline-making speech in Davos that called for middle powers to band together.

In his speech to the World Economic Forum in January, Carney urged middle powers to work together against “American hegemony” and the efforts of great powers to coerce and subjugate smaller countries.

Carney has set out to reset Canada’s relations with India after a diplomatic crisis that erupted in 2023, when then-prime minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons Canada was pursuing “credible allegations of a potential link” between India and the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

A year later, the RCMP accused New Delhi of playing a role in a network of violence linked to domestic homicides and acts of extortion.

Canada and India have since relaunched trade negotiations that have stopped and started since 2010 as both countries look to diversify their trade links away from dependence on the United States.

More coming.

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press