Canadian FM Anita Anand hails India-Canada ‘commitment’ to work together to shape future

Feb 28, 2026

Mumbai, February 28, 2026: (ANI): During the Indo canadian Innovation Exibition, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said, "...Canada and India are committed to working together openly, collaboratively and ambitiously to develop the talent and ideas that will shape the future. And our bilateral collaboration is already fueling the talent engine. I want to give you just two examples. Under our Indo-Pacific Strategy, we are launching new scholarships to send graduate students and researchers from 11 universities to India to collaborate in strategic fields from hydrogen and AI to climate resilience and supply chain security. Secondly, through a new partnership between MITACS and the All India Council for Technical Education, 300 Indian undergraduate researchers will come to Canada each year, creating a new, powerful mobility pipeline. So all of this to say that Canada's universities are frontline partners in India's growth story, not only Canada's growth story..."