India trade talks heating up, but ex-envoy cautions: ‘we’ve been to the altar before’

The Liberals’ relative flexibility on investor-state dispute systems and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an expected visit to India by the PM, may help to move talks along.

Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland met with Nirmala Sitharaman, India's minister of state for commerce, in Toronto last month at an annual ministerial dialogue on trade and investment between the two countries.Photograph courtesy for Chrystia Freeland's Twitter account

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

October 12, 2016

Canada and India are getting the ball rolling again on negotiations towards free-trade and investment agreements with India, as the Canadian government considers what to do with a Temporary Foreign Worker Program that the South Asian state wants changed. Canada...

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