Toronto, Feb. 26 -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will leave for India later tonight. The focus during his visit will be on businesses across trade, energy, technology, and defence. One of the key deliverables will be advancing negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Indian.

In an interview with CBC News, Canada's Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu expressed hope in the possibility of conclusing the FTA by the end of the year.

"Over the last nine months we were very successful in completing Indonesia Ecuador UAE and getting access to EU defence procurement initiatives hundreds of billions of dollars of export opportunities. We're the only non-EU country to get part of that deal. Again coming back to India you...