On the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held a high-profile bilateral meeting to accelerate economic and strategic ties. Highlighting the robust turnaround in bilateral relations, both leaders agreed on an aggressive deadline to conclude the long-pending Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by the upcoming G20 Summit. Underscoring a shared objective to double bilateral trade by the end of the decade, PM Modi accepted Carney’s invitation to visit Canada later this year, while emphasizing deeply integrated collaboration across energy security, tech infrastructure, and critical minerals.