“You don’t want the passions of the subcontinent imported into your because they will infect you and Canada will be the loser,” he said, adding he has no problem with those peacefully advocating for a Sikh state.
“Canada cannot blow up its relationships with both India and China at the same time,” said Swarup, adding both countries now need to make the best of a bad-blood situation.Sovereignty is important ‘but this changes a lot of things,’ says president of Canada-India Business Council “Canada has a big stake already” in the tech side of his country’s economy, whose overall GDP is set to grow from $3.5 trillion to $8 trillion in 10 years, said Sethi.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.While Canadian exports to India last year were $5.3 billion — or 0.7 per cent of its global total — the country imported $8.3 billion worth of goods from the south Asian nation, or about 1.1 per cent of total imports.
“How are our subnationals collaborating with the subnationals over there? The provinces are going to have to do a lot more,” said Thomas.