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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau pitches for closer economic ties with India

Ostensibly reacting to criticisms about his more than a week-long trip to India at the taxpayer's expense

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Harsimrat Kaur Badal (left), minister of food processing, and CII President Shobana Kamineni at the Indo-Canada Business Session in New Delhi. (Photo: Dalip Kumar)

Subhayan Chakraborty New Delhi

Last Updated : Feb 23 2018 | 5:54 AM IST

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday stressed the need for greater economic ties with India, arguing that the large size of the two countries and India's huge diaspora in Canada provided an opportunity to do so.

He said his current trip to India generated investments of more than 1 billion Canadian dollars.

Ostensibly reacting to criticisms about his more than a week-long trip to India at the taxpayer’s expense, Trudeau said 6,000 jobs would be created as a result of this in Canada. This was on account of investments by information technology giants such as Tech Mahindra, Infosys, and

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