India, July 15 -- Canada will revisit its Indo-Pacific strategy keeping domestic economic interests in mind, the country's foreign minister has said. Speaking to reporters from Kuala Lumpur via videolink where she attended the Asean summit, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said, "This is a time when the global economy is under stress and we need to ensure that our diplomacy is serving domestic interests as well." She said that Ottawa's foreign policy in general including that looking at the Indo-Pacific region, will adhere to the values it has historically adhered to but also "how we can ensure that foreign policy is an extension of domestic interests and particularly domestic economic interests". The Indo-Pacific Strategy was released in November 2022, and "the global strategic environment has shifted significantly" since then, she pointed out. She described as a "significant step" the bilateral meeting that Prime Minister Mark Carney held with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the margins of the G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, last month, but cautioned that the next steps will be "taken prudently and in due course" but that "timeline will be steady, not immediate". The Indo-Pacific Strategy, when it was released, described India as a "critical partner". "Canada and India have a shared tradition of democracy and pluralism, a common commitment to a rules-based international system and multilateralism, mutual interest in expanding our commercial relationship and extensive and growing people-to-people connections," it said....