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By Surjit Singh Flora

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is going to India from Feb. 17 to 23 with his delegation on a trade mission. During the visit they will stop by New Delhi, Amritsar (Golden Temple), Ahmedabad, Agra and Mumbai.

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The statement released by Trudeau’s office says “Canada and India share a special bond and are linked by tremendous people-to-people connections. The more than one million Canadians of Indian origin make the relationship between our two countries a truly special one. I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi and further strengthening the Canada-India friendship.”

Trudeau’s visit was expected to occur much earlier but has been delayed several times. Among other things, this is because a motion was passed in the Ontario legislature earlier last year terming India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots as “genocide.”

Since then New Delhi has been upset with the Trudeau Liberals. Meanwhile, Ottawa has repeatedly stressed that the federal Liberals are different from the Liberals that run Ontario, but India hasn’t taken too kindly to that argument.