India–Canada Dialogue on Economic Resilience and Critical Minerals Supply Chains

The India–Canada Dialogue on Economic Resilience and Critical Minerals Supply Chains brings together government, industry and experts from both countries to build a genuine partnership on critical minerals, one grounded in a natural complementarity: Canada’s strength in upstream mining and extraction, paired with India’s midstream processing, manufacturing scale and technical talent.

Convened by the Ananta Aspen Centre in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the High Commission of Canada in India, the dialogue is built around four practical, action-oriented pillars:

Strengthening India-Canada economic resilience and identifying short-to-medium term deliverables

Unlocking trade and investment through tools like offtake-backed finance, targeted tariff and rules-of-origin approaches, and project-level incentives

Mapping geopolitical and technology vulnerabilities and proposing joint R&D, financing and governance responses, with special attention to rare earths

Converting discussion into a sequenced, accountable roadmap of pilots, policy reforms and financing mechanisms

The Inaugural Dialogue, New Delhi (24–25 November 2025)

The first edition of the dialogue opened with remarks from Shri K. Nagaraj Naidu, Additional Secretary, Americas Division, Ministry of External Affairs; Hon. Victor Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Government of Ontario; and Ms Sara Wilshaw, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, International Trade and Chief Trade Commissioner of Canada. Over two days, participants zeroed in on critical minerals as the sharpest, most actionable opportunity in the relationship: lithium, nickel, copper and select rare earth elements emerged as the priority starting points, chosen for strong demand and policy alignment on both sides.
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