Concluding an 8-day trade mission to India, Premier Kathleen Wynne of Ontario, Canada said the province’s ties to this fast-growing nation of nearly 1.3 billion people are getting stronger. The Ontario delegation visited New Delhi, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.
Ontario companies, universities, and colleges signed 65 agreements worth $240 million during Wynne’s visit. “India is open and willing and ready to work with us and now our job is to seize that opportunity,” the premier added in an interview Saturday.
Wynne met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice, and the chief ministers — (the equivalent of state governors) — of five states, as well as federal and state cabinet ministers. She also had private meetings with leaders of Indian industry, including Cyrus Mistry, chairman of Tata Group, whose holdings include the automakers Jaguar, Land Rover, and Tetley Tea, and Anand Mahindra, chair of Mahindra Group, which makes cars and tractors reports Metro.