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‘No longer a threat’: How Canada U-turned on India ahead of Carney visit

Al Jazeera, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada; Michael Kugelman, Senior Fellow, APF Canada

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla told Al Jazeera that Ottawa has moved from a public, crisis-driven posture to a more deliberate, step-by-step “reset”.

Under Carney, “the emphasis is on rebuilding structured channels so security concerns – including transnational repression and interference – can be handled through sustained law enforcement and national security cooperation rather than megaphone diplomacy,” she argued.

“Ottawa is trying to do both at once: defend the rule of law at home while advancing areas of mutual interest abroad. 

Meanwhile Kugelman said "Canadian officials definitely still worry about the transnational repression issue, and particularly as legal proceedings continue,”

Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to strengthen economic ties with India on trip to Mumbai, New Delhi

CTV News, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  “Both for India and for Canada, the big picture is one of diversification and reducing overreliance on the U.S.,”  Nadjibulla said in an interview ahead of the trip.

“There is definitely sort of a Trump accelerator in play here, because both sides are moving quicker than they have in the past when it comes to forging partnerships and making deals.”

Canadian PM Carney heads to India on ‘significant’ trip to consolidate ties

Al Jazeera, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  “This is a very significant visit and allows Prime Minister Carney to consolidate a reset that began in the relationship last year,” said  Nadjibulla.

PM Carney brings his ‘middle-power diplomacy’ to India, begins 10-day trip

CHCH News, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  "This is Prime Minister Carney taking his Davos 'middle power diplomacy' agenda on the road." 

Nadjibulla says this trip to India will be a chance to put those tenets of Carney's viral speech to the test and bring those ideas to a part of the world "that is going to be really consequential to Canada's prosperity and security." 

Carney's messaging, she says, has "open[ed] up strategic opportunities between Canada and India that didn't exist before." 

Why is Carney in India despite a strained past?

Global News, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla calls India a "critical and consequential" partner to Canada despite the last few years of tension. Mark Carney's trip to India is a "high-stakes visit" amid Canada's bid to reset its relationship with India and expand economic ties in areas like energy security. 

"The ambition for the trip is quite high. It's going to focus on economy, energy, technology, education, as well as the defence sector.... at the very least, the prime minister needs some very specific outcomes, for example announcements on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, making progress, showing Canada and India can deliver, and taking advantage of the enormous economic potential that exists" in India.

Mark Carney’s trip to India was unimaginable more than a year ago. Now it’s his Davos speech in action

Toronto Star, February 27, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Past diplomatic tensions involving foreign interference and transnational repression make Carney's trip to India a real-time example of Carney’s “variable geometry” effort, the idea he outlined in his now-famous Davos speech in January, to co-operate with other countries in areas of shared interest, even if those countries have substantial disagreements on other issues, said  Nadjibulla.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's latest trade mission aims to boost trade, thaw tensions with India

CBC Listen: On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko, February 28, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla tells CBC that "it's great to see so much activity" in Canada's economic diversification agenda "but implementation here at home will have to speed up" to ensure Canada's meets its end of these bargains.

On India, Nadjibulla says the question is not 'are we in a reset' but rather "can this reset be sustainable and what would it take to make it an enduring reset... [and] deepen the strategic partnerships... beyond crisis management?" She adds that sustaining this reset will require tools to address the accusations of foreign interference by India in Canada, and on-going high-level dialogues with India. 

PM Carney's Trip To India & Remembering Giorgio Mammoliti

Zoomer Radio, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Jeff Nankivell, President & CEO, APF Canada

Excerpt:  Nankivell tells Zoomer Radio that the Canada-India reset is "already well underway" as PM Carney visits India this week as part of a ten-day trip to the Indo-Pacific region. 

The reset, he says, "really began with the invitation by PM Carney to PM Modi to attend the G7 Summit in July... and they have met subsequently on the margins of multilateral meetings... and the invitation had been extended to Carney to make an official bilateral visit" to India later in 2025. 

While he admits there are "historical reasons why the Canada-India has under-performed relative to the size of the two economies," he stresses that there is a strong motivation from India to find "new partners for energy supplies... [and] there is a desire to get more from Canada in certain types of commodities" like agricultural products.  

What must Carney accomplish on his trip to India?

CBC News - Power & Politics, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada

Excerpt:  “I think through this trip [to India] Prime Minister Carney is trying to solidify the reset, and do so by having some concrete deliverables in areas like technology and cooperation." 

Carney is "trying to make [the Canada-India] reset enduring," and according to Nadjibulla, the best way to achieve that goal is through "practical areas of co-operation... real deals, long-term deals" such as ten-year proposals on nuclear energy co-operation and agreements on Indian investment in Canadian LNG projects. 

"Are there issues? Yes. Can this trip be successful in solidifying the rest? Absolutely." 

India is signing trade deals with other middle powers. Canada cannot get lost in the shuffle

The Globe and Mail, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Tanya Dawar, Research Scholar, South Asia, APF Canada

Excerpt:  The India-EU trade agreement can serve as a “benchmark” for Ottawa as it pursues its own trade talks with New Delhi, according to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

“India offered the EU its best deal thus far,” writes Tanya Dawar, a research scholar with the Foundation, in a recent report.

“...Notably, the EU–India agreement includes a dedicated chapter for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that improves access to information on operating in each market.”

Why Asia Matters

TransMountain, February 26, 2026

Featuring: APF Canada's Canada-in-Asia Conference 2026

Excerpt: Trans Mountain's CEO Mark Maki, who participated in the Canada-in-Asia Conference in Singapore, says "Asia is the centre of global energy demand growth, and Trans Mountain is the most direct, efficient and secure link between Canadian supply and that demand,” said Mark. “We’re already seeing momentum. In 2025, more than 65% of our exports from the Westridge Marine Terminal were delivered to Asia — and our route has a built-in competitive advantage, being the fastest path from Alberta to the Pacific.

As Carney heads to India, what can the two countries gain from each other?

Globe News, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada

Excerpt:  “India has a tremendous amount of demand and need for both clean and conventional energy, and Canada is a major producer,” said  Nadjibulla.

“Until recently, Canada didn’t have the export infrastructure to get its oil and gas to Asia, but now it does. And I think we’ll increasingly see more such opportunities.”

PrimeTime Politics: Poilievre's pitch – February 26, 2026

CPAC, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla says PM Carney's Davos speech received a lot of attention in India, where there was much excitement about a "more pragmatic, more realism-based Canadian foreign policy, but also a recognition that the world genuinely has changed."

While she adds that Canadians have been very focused on our trading relationship with the U.S., "it is important to see how this middle power diplomacy, how this coalition-building around specific interests, how that's going to work in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region... It's a real opportunity to see how [Canada's] Indo-Pacific Strategy can now be made 'fit for purpose' in today's moment of transition and volatility." 

Carney embarks on nine-day trade mission to India and other nations

CTV News, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla says PM Carney is looking to "take that message of middle powers coming together to deal with the disruptions [Canada] is facing given what great powers like the U.S. and China are doing, to the region that's actually the most consequential to Canada's future economic prosperity and security." 

Mark Carney visit: Defence may play a major role in reset of India-Canada ties

Hindustan Times, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  “Canada and India have a strategic partnership already in place. Of course, a lot has changed since then. There's been ups and downs in the relationship. So this is really more about reviving that, but also putting in place a much more ambitious agenda," said Nadjibulla.

"So there could be areas to explore here, both on the industrial side, but also more generally, a strategic conversation about maritime security as well as the changing security dynamic in the lndo-Pacific," she added. "Canada has an lndo-Pacific strategy. India was identified in that strategy as a critical partner. Canada has advanced discussions around maritime security, maritime domain awareness with other partners in the region, and it will be interesting to see how far those discussions can now proceed with India now that we are in this new moment."

Canada and South Korea enter defense agreement due to ‘unpredictable global order’

Jurist News, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Jeehye Kim, Senior Program Manager, Northeast Asia, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  In December 2025, APF Canada hosted a roundtable discussion on the potential challenges of the Canada-South Korea defense partnership. 

“If effectively institutionalized and sustained, Canada-Korea co-operation – anchored in projects like the CPSP and broadened to include hybrid threats and emerging technologies – has the potential to serve as a model for middle-power alignment in an era of intensifying geopolitical competition."

After decades of mistrust and missteps, where do India and Canada fit together?

The Globe and Mail, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  “The history of Canada-India relations is one of many missed opportunities, roadblocks and mistrust,” said Vina Nadjibulla, “but there’s also a lot of potential in the relationship.”

A new foot forward in India

The Globe and Mail, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Despite India’s size, Canada’s merchandise exports to the subcontinent were only $5.3-billion in 2024, less than 1 per cent of all Canadian exports that year. By comparison, Indian exports to Canada were $8-billion. “We are now the only country in the G7 that doesn’t have a preferential trade agreement with India,” said Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President of Research and Strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

...With both sides talking about tackling transnational organized criminal networks and the flow of illegal drugs, Nadjibulla described new law enforcement co-operation mechanisms that have been established between Canada and India as a “hotline” to resolve problems early.
 

Carney's India trip is all business: An inside look at what the PM has planned

CBC News, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla said PM Carney's trip to India has the potential to be hugely significant — a chance to draw closer to an Indo-Pacific power, unlock billions in trade and bolster sectors hurt by the U.S. trade war.

Canada is having ‘a moment’ in Asia, global affairs expert says ahead of Carney trip

Canadian Press, February 26, 2026

Featuring: Vina Nadjibulla, Vice-President Research & Strategy, APF Canada 

Excerpt:  Nadjibulla says the time is ripe for Prime Minister Mark Carney to expand ties in Asia, following heavy praise in the region for his World Economic Forum speech. Carney said middle powers need to band together to withstand coercion from countries like the United States, thereby undermining the world order.

"In Asia, Canada is having a moment. Prime Minister Carney's speech really was quite an important development in how Asia sees Canada... this is an actual palpable difference in the level of curiosity, in the desire to partner with Canada, and that is also true about India." 

Carney's speech received "wall to wall coverage for days in India and where is a desire to see what that could mean practically for [the nation] as part of [Carney's upcoming] visit" to New Delhi.