Toronto, Nov. 8 -- Economic relations between India and Canada could get a fresh impetus this month with Union finance minister Nirmala Sithraman likely to visit the North American country in the third week of November for a bilateral dialogue with her counterpart Francois-Philippe Champagne. A person familiar with the matter told the HT the visit will likely be part of a ministerial dialogue in economic matters, part of the structured mechanism the two countries want to put in place. The finance minister is expected to visit the capital Ottawa for her bilateral with Champagne, and also Toronto, for meeting with industry and corporate groups, including pension funds. If the visit does happen, it will be the first stand-alone bilateral visit to Canada since commerce minister Piyush Goyal's engagement in Ottawa and Toronto in May 2023. But even before that there is the likelihood of Canada's minister of international trade Maninder Sidhu traveling to India. He has been invited to the CII Partnership Summit, to be held in Visakhapatnam on November 14 and 15. However, that visit is also not fully confirmed though the invitation has been accepted in principle, the person cited earlier said. These visits are part of an ongoing reset in the relationship which cratered on September 18, 2023, when then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated in the House of Commons that there were "credible allegations" of a potential link between Indian agents and the killing of pro-Khalistan figure Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, three months earlier. Weeks prior to that accusation, negotiations towards an Early Progress Trade Agreement or EPTA were "paused" by Canada. The breakthrough in resetting ties came when Trudeau's successor as PM, Mark Carney, invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, in June and the two leaders had a productive bilateral meeting. The step-by-step approach to resetting ties and rebuilding trust continued when Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand travelled to India in October and held talks with external affairs minister S Jaishankar and Goyal....