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Goyal’s Canada visit may accelerate Cepa negotiations, deepen energy ties

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May 25, 2026

As Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal begins his three-day visit to Canada on Sunday to expedite negotiations for the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (Cepa), energy security and clean energy transition are expected to figure prominently in the talks, given the strong complementarities between Canada’s vast natural resource base and India’s growing energy needs.

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Civil nuclear cooperation is also likely to remain a key pillar of the bilateral energy partnership.

A free-trade agreement with Canada could help India diversify import sources for strategic products such as energy products ($341.36 million) and fertilisers ($263.17 million), whose supplies are currently under disruption amid the West Asia conflict.

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The chairmen of Tata Trusts and Tata Sons — Noel Tata and N Chandrasekaran—are learnt to have met during the weekend, putting an end to a three-month long communication logjam between the two amid dissonance within Tata Trusts.

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