{"id":59222,"date":"2025-11-15T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=59222"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:20:43","slug":"india-canada-critical-minerals-aerospace-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/15-11-2025\/india-canada-critical-minerals-aerospace-ties","title":{"rendered":"India, Canada Revive Ties with Critical Minerals, Aerospace Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/IR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada held the 7th Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and Investment (MDTI) recently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada reaffirmed mutual respect and forward-looking cooperation, agreeing to deepen strategic collaboration in<strong> critical minerals, clean energy, aerospace, and dual-use technologies.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They emphasized resilient, diversified supply chains\u2014especially in <strong>agriculture<\/strong>\u2014and committed to a transparent investment climate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both sides highlighted the <strong>importance of people-to-people ties<\/strong> and pledged continued <strong>ministerial engagement<\/strong> with trade and investment stakeholders in early 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>India-Canada Relations&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Overview:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India-Canada ties are underpinned by shared values of democracy, cultural diversity, expanding economic engagement and long-standing people-to-people ties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both sides have dialogue mechanisms such as Ministerial levelStrategic, Trade and Energy dialogues; Foreign Office Consultations; Joint Committee Meeting on Environment and other sector specific joint working groups (JWG).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Economic Relations:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/14-10-2025\/canadian-fm-visit-to-india\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/14-10-2025\/canadian-fm-visit-to-india\">India\u2013Canada<\/a> bilateral trade in goods totaled CAD 13.32 billion, with India exporting CAD 8.02 billion and importing CAD 5.30 billion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bilateral services trade in 2024 stood at CAD 18.6 billion, with India\u2019s exports at CAD 3.5 billion and imports at CAD 15.1 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Security Cooperation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada engage on counter-terrorism through the Joint Working Group (JWG) established in 1997, with cooperation further strengthened by the 2018 Framework for Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Civil Nuclear Cooperation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada signed a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA) in June 2010, which came into force in September 2013, enabling peaceful nuclear collaboration.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Further cooperation in science, technology, and innovation was formalized through an MoU during Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s visit in February 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Energy Cooperation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada held a Ministerial-level Energy Dialogue in September 2016, which was expanded in February 2018 to include electricity, energy efficiency, and renewables.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Further engagement occurred when India\u2019s Petroleum Secretary participated in the World Petroleum Congress 2023 in Calgary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Space:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and Canada have built a longstanding space partnership through MoUs signed between ISRO and the Canadian Space Agency in 1996, 2003, and 2015, focusing on satellite tracking, space astronomy, and peaceful space technology cooperation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ANTRIX, ISRO\u2019s commercial arm, has launched several Canadian nanosatellites, including Canada\u2019s first low-Earth orbit satellite aboard ISRO\u2019s 100th PSLV mission in January 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source :<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/foreign-trade\/india-canada-revive-ties-with-critical-minerals-aerospace-partnerships\/articleshow\/125316425.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India and Canada held the 7th Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and Investment (MDTI) recently.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India and Canada reaffirmed mutual respect and forward-looking cooperation, agreeing to deepen strategic collaboration in critical minerals, clean energy, aerospace, and dual-use technologies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">They emphasized resilient, diversified supply chains\u2014especially in agriculture\u2014and committed to a transparent investment climate.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Both sides highlighted the importance of people-to-people ties and pledged continued ministerial engagement with trade and investment stakeholders in early 2026.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/15-11-2025\/india-canada-critical-minerals-aerospace-ties\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm 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