Jaishankar to visit Canada on Nov 12 for G7 meet, signals thaw in bilateral ties

Jaishankar will join the outreach session of the meeting for G7 partners in Ontario at the invitation of his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand.

Published on: Nov 11, 2025, 17:58:31 IST

By Rezaul H Laskar

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External affairs minister S Jaishankar will visit Canada on November 12 to participate in the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday, marking the continuing normalisation of bilateral ties.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar with Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand in New Delhi last month. (Photo from X)

Jaishankar will join the outreach session of the meeting for G7 partners in Ontario at the invitation of his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand.

His participation in the meeting reflects India’s continued commitment to working with international partners to address global challenges and bolster the “voice of the Global South in international fora”, the ministry said.

Jaishankar is also expected to hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G7 meeting.

The visit comes a little more than two months after India and Canada appointed new high commissioners in each other’s capitals as part of efforts to normalise relations hit by a diplomatic row over the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023.

The G7 meeting will focus on addressing pressing global economic and security challenges, Canada’s foreign ministry said last week.

Australia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine are among the outreach partners invited to the G7 meeting.

There was a sharp downturn in relations after former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian government agents of involvement in the killing of Nijjar. India dismissed the charge as “absurd” but the allegation took relations to their lowest point in years.

Jaishankar is expected to meet Anand during the visit, the third interaction between the two ministers in two months.

The two leaders first met in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, and again in New Delhi during Anand’s visit.

Following those meetings, the two sides unveiled a roadmap to reset ties and agreed to resume trade and investment discussions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rezaul H Laskar
Rezaul Hasan Laskar is Foreign Editor with the Hindustan Times, which he joined in 2015. He began as a journalist in his hometown of Shillong in northeast India and has worked in newspapers and wire services over the years. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and initially focused on defence, national security, Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, while also working of foreign policy and international relations. He has been part of the media delegation accompanying PMs on foreign visits and has reported from destinations ranging from Tibet to Ukraine. Between 2007 and 2013, he was the Press Trust of India correspondent in Pakistan, one of only two Indian journalists allowed to report from the country. He extensively covered Pakistan’s domestic politics and the life of the common people, as well as the fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on India-Pakistan relations and the subsequent trial in Pakistan of the suspects involved in the attack. As part of his reportage in Pakistan, he travelled the breadth of the country, from the Swat Valley to Balochistan. Reza’s first gig in journalism was writing a weekly music column, and music – especially classic rock – remains a keen interest. He is also a movie buff and a keen photographer.Read More

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