Canada: No pleasure for India in Trudeau resignation, truly

Trudeau has are available in for sharp criticism for resigning so late, in the meantime. On condition that his lame duck administration in no place to successfully cut price with Trump and the US, Canada stares at a interval of political and financial uncertainty.

Whereas Conservative Occasion chief Pierre Pollievre has gone on file saying that he favoured a ‘skilled relationship’ with India, having frowned on Trudeau’s dealing with of the stress in bilateral relations following the assassination of Khalistani sympathiser Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023, the brand new Tory authorities is prone to be extra aligned with the institution in Washington DC on immigration and commerce.

An estimated 427,000 Indian college students are mentioned to be learning in Canada. In line with the 2021 Canadian census information, Canada harbours roughly 1.86 million people of Indian origin, accounting for five.1 per cent of the nation’s whole inhabitants. It is without doubt one of the most profitable immigrant communities within the nation and the expansion within the variety of Indians migrating to Canada was enabled by liberal visa and immigration insurance policies. Roughly one-fifth of its current immigrants nonetheless hail from India, marking the very best share of immigrants in Canada from a single nation of origin since 1971.

Will the liberal insurance policies adopted prior to now proceed as earlier than underneath the Conservative Occasion? That, in the intervening time, is a topic of appreciable hypothesis. What is definite is that immigration will proceed to be a scorching button concern in India’s relationship with Canada.