00:00The human dimension of all this comes into it, and again, hearkening back to the past.
00:05Tomorrow, for example, we will host here at the official residence a memorial for the Air India bombing tragedy.
00:11This was the largest terrorist incident in Canadian history.
00:14It affected both of our countries deeply.
00:17Last year was the 40th anniversary of that terrible event,
00:21and so tomorrow we'll be hosting some of the families of the victims of that event
00:26and marking how together we see this as something that must never happen again,
00:32and that's part of the human dimension that's, I think, so important between our two countries.
00:36I've talked about the commercial part.
00:37I've talked about the political part.
00:39I've talked about the defense, but, you know, having been here now nine months,
00:43what I'm struck by is the warmth between the two peoples, and I was here in the 1990s,
00:50so I had some sense of India before, but I'm very much impressed by the welcome that we've received.
00:55So I think that's growing all the time.
00:58You're going to see more of Canada.
00:59You're going to see, as I said, the whole of Canada, the private sector, the political level,
01:03the provinces, the federal level, the businesses.
01:06We're trying to reach out to more of India.
01:08We have offices in a number of cities around India,
01:11but we want to be much more present than we are at the moment,
01:14and you'll see us all over the country with trade delegations.
01:18This one coming in the fall, for example,
01:20they'll go to Bangalore and Hyderabad, Chennai and so on, and Mumbai.
01:24So we want to be more visible, but I know that the welcome that we're receiving will encourage more of
01:30that,
01:30and in a way that's probably the most important part that the people want on both sides.
01:35They want this relationship to be much, much bigger than it's been in the past.
01:38They want to get past these ups and downs that we've had over the last decades
01:42and put things on an even keel so that we just go forward and have lots of steady momentum to
01:48keep improving the relationship.
01:49The human dimension of all of this comes into it, and again, hearkening back to the past.
01:54Tomorrow, for example, we will host here at the Official Residence a memorial for the Air India bombing tragedy.
02:00This was the largest terrorist incident in Canadian history.
02:04It affected both of our countries deeply.
02:07Last year was the 40th anniversary of that terrible event,
02:10and so tomorrow we'll be hosting some of the families of the victims of that event
02:15and marking how together we see this as something that must never happen again,
02:21and that's part of the human dimension that's, I think, so important between our two countries.
02:25I've talked about the commercial part.
02:27I've talked about the political part.
02:28I've talked about the defense, but, you know, having been here now nine months,
02:32what I'm struck by is the warmth between the two peoples,
02:36and I was here in the 1990s, so I had some sense of India before,
02:41but I'm very much impressed by the welcome that we've received.
02:45I think that's growing all the time.
02:47You're going to see more of Canada.
02:48You're going to see, as I said, the whole of Canada, the private sector,
02:51the political level, the provinces, the federal level, the businesses.
02:56We're trying to reach out to more of India.
02:58We have offices in a number of cities around India,
03:01but we want to be much more present than we are at the moment,
03:04and you'll see us all over the country with trade delegations.
03:07This one coming in the fall, for example,
03:09they'll go to Bangalore and Hyderabad, Chennai and so on, and Mumbai.
03:13So we want to be more visible,
03:15but I know that the welcome that we're receiving will encourage more of that,
03:19and in a way that's probably the most important part that the people want on both sides.
03:24They want this relationship to be much, much bigger than it's been in the past.
03:27They want to get past these ups and downs that we've had over the last decades
03:31and put things on an even keel so that we just go forward
03:35and have lots of steady momentum to keep improving.
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