Ontario premier leads a 100-member business delegation to boost trade relations with India
Premier Kathleen Wynne of Canada's Ontario arrived on Sunday on a six-day visit leading a 100-member business delegation in a bid boost the province's trade relations with India, the Canada-India Business Council (C-IBC) said in a statement here. "Wynne's delegation will visit four cities -- New Delhi, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Mumbai -- and will formalize agreements and memorandums of understanding within the research, infrastructure, technology, science, health and education sectors," the statement said. "Wynne will also meet with political and cultural leaders to build new relationships, strengthen existing ones and examine areas for future cooperation," it added. Ahead of her visit, Wynne, in provincial capital Toronto, noted that she "really believes that 2016 can be a huge year for Ontario and India because of what is going on in India and the plan that Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi has put in place, the smart cities, the clean tech that is going be needed, and because of our potential here to provide capacity in all of those areas". With 700,000 Ontarians being of Indian descent, ties between the province and India are already strong," former C-IBC president Kam Rathee, who is India-born, told reporters here
