India, Oct. 16 -- Prime Minister Mark Carney cited stronger ties with India as he reached out to the Indo-Canadian community in Alberta ahead of a separation referendum on Monday. He said the two sides were discussing a trade deal in an interview with RedFM Calgary, which is popular with Alberta's Punjabi-speaking community.

Carney asked RedFM Calgary listeners to reject leaving Canada. "The world is more dangerous; it is more divided. On the other side of the equation, the world wants to do more with Canada. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi and I, when we are discussing, we are discussing all the opportunities we have together in energy, in education, in agriculture, in artificial intelligence, in aerospace, in people-to-people ties, in c...