Harper Promotes Trade Links to India

(CBC News)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper pitched Canada as a potential sales partner to business leaders in India on Monday, the first day of his whirlwind three-day tour of the South Asian economic powerhouse.

Harper told an audience of Indian business investors at a hotel in Mumbai that the combined GDP of the two countries is on its way to $4 trillion, and yet two-way trade is just $5 billion.

That represents a lot of untapped business potential, he said.

Harper’s efforts to strengthen economic ties with India are a recognition of India’s rising importance as one of the world’s fast-growing economies.

“The South Asian tiger has awoken and the world is standing in awe,” he told the business leaders. Read more here.