India – Canada Relations Post-Cold War Perspective – Part 2

Ananda Majumdar

doi:10.26417/ejms.v7i2.p141-151

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Introduction st FocusIndia, Team Canada, Colombo Plan, CIRUS Nuclear Reactor, Partners for the 21 Century, CIDAIndia and Canada have enjoyed a wide ranging and broad-based relationship ever since 1947, when India gained independence
Close study of the current Indian situation has convinced Canada that the size of India’s economy, its impressive growth rate, advancing industrial profile and the tremendous buy power of the sizable middle class in India represent great opportunity for Canada. It is in the context of this understanding that Canada launched (June 1995) a Focus India trade strategy, which culminated in the visit to India in January 1996 by a Team Canada led Prime Minister Jean Chretien
During Mr Chretien visit to India, he said that the close ties that existed during Jawaharlal Nehru’s time, had been missing in recent decades, he said that there was a reason for that cooling but he wants to build that that relationship in a new way

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Introduction

Introduction st FocusIndia, Team Canada, Colombo Plan, CIRUS Nuclear Reactor, Partners for the 21 Century, CIDAIndia and Canada have enjoyed a wide ranging and broad-based relationship ever since 1947, when India gained independence. Close study of the current Indian situation has convinced Canada that the size of India’s economy, its impressive growth rate, advancing industrial profile and the tremendous buy power of the sizable middle class in India (estimated at between 250 to 300 million) represent great opportunity for Canada. It is in the context of this understanding that Canada launched (June 1995) a Focus India trade strategy, which culminated in the visit to India in January 1996 by a Team Canada led Prime Minister Jean Chretien. The deeping commercial and economic relationship between India and Canada stands embodied in the joint business council, India - Canada business alliance platform operated by the federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(CII), on the Indian end, and Canada-

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