India, Oct. 21 -- The onus is on Canada to resume free trade negotiations, India's High Commissioner to Ottawa Dinesh Patnaik has indicated.

In an interview with the network CTV, which aired on Sunday night, Patnaik said, "We will discuss with Canada if Canada is ready to sign a free trade deal with us, we will be more than happy to work with Canada. But it is the Canadians who paused it, it's for the Canadians to restart it."

There were several rounds of negotiations towards India and Canada towards an early progress trade agreement or EPTA, but Ottawa "paused" talks in August 2023, a month before relations ruptured when then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated in the House of Commons that there were "credible allegations" of a potent...