Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Canada on December 11 and 12, his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney said, as the two sides fast-track talks for a trade deal ahead of it.
Carney said the visit is likely to be to the capital, Ottawa, and Toronto.
India’s High Commission in Ottawa announced the Modi visit schedule in a post on X. HT in May first reported on Modi’s visit. Canada is keen on bolstering economic relations with countries like India amid its trade tensions with the US.
It will be his first bilateral trip since 2015, when he travelled to Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver during Stephen Harper’s last year as Canada’s Prime Minister. Both sides have worked to repair ties after Carney was elected Prime Minister in 2025.
It said Carney and Modi spoke and agreed to build on the positive momentum in ties and work towards concrete outcomes in trade, energy, technology, security and people-to-people ties. People familiar with Modi’s schedule said Modi will meet Carney in Ottawa and Canadian businesses and attend a diaspora gathering in Toronto before travelling to Miami in the US for the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
Carney and Modi appreciated the Team Canada Trade Mission currently in India. In the recent conversation with Rt. Hon. PM Mark Carney, both the leaders agreed to build on the positive momentum in ties and work towards concrete outcomes in trade, energy, technology, security and people-to-people ties.
The trade talks have coincided with an improvement in the bilateral relationship, which fell to its lowest level in decades after former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian government agents of involvement in the 2023 killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Earlier reporting noted: PM Modi to visit Canada on December 11-12 as countries seek to boost ties Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Canada from December 11-12, the High Commission of India in Ottawa said on Friday. Earlier reporting noted: In a post on X, the High Commission said, “Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi will visit Canada on 11–12 December 2026.
India described those accusations as “absurd” and “motivated. A readout from the Canadian Prime Minister’s Office said Carney and Modi reiterated their “commitment to conclude negotiations” for CEPA “at the earliest opportunity, supporting efforts to double two-way trade by 2030”.
Earlier reporting noted: The call took place as Canada’s foreign minister Anita Anand and international trade minister Maninder Sidhu visited New Delhi to advance negotiations on a trade agreement that the two countries hope to finalise by the end of the year. Canada’s foreign minister Anita Anand met Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, Canada’s foreign ministry said she “looked forward to welcoming Prime Minister Modi in Canada in December. The announcement comes after Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held a telephone conversation on Tuesday and agreed to build on efforts to improve bilateral ties.
