Both the countries signed an agreement on social security which would largely benefit the Overseas Indians in Canada and another MoU on cooperation in information technology and electronics.

Though there was discussions on Canada’s proposed sale of uranium to India at the delegation level talks between the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper here on Tuesday, it could not be finalized as working out of modalities at the technical is yet to be completed.

“Prime Minister Harper and I have conducted a comprehensive review of our wide-ranging partnership. We agreed to institute a Strategic Dialogue at the level of Foreign Ministers. We identified energy cooperation, particularly exports of Canadian oil and natural gas as well as renewable energy cooperation, as an area with enormous potential. A Ministerial-level energy dialogue will supplement the Strategic Dialogue and promote specific projects. We also welcomed the recent progress made towards concluding the modalities for the effective operationalization of the agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation that we had signed in 2010,” said Dr Singh at the end of the delegation level talks.

However both the leaders agreed for an active collaboration in high technology sectors between two scientific institutions in each other’s country. “The Prime Minister and I agreed on the need to develop such linkages. The MOU that has just been signed between DRDO and York University is a welcome foray into bilateral defence technology cooperation, where Canadian prowess is widely acknowledged,” Dr Singh said.

“We resolved to conclude negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement within the next year. I assured the Prime Minister that India is committed to finalizing a Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement, on which negotiations are underway. I also conveyed that India hopes to attract more Canadian investment in India, just as there has been a steady flow of Indian capital into Canada, “ the Indian Prime Minister informed.