India, Oct. 3 -- India and Canada are exploring the possibility to work on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) rather than reverting to an Early Progress Trade Agreement (EPTA), which was being negotiated at the time the bilateral relationship cratered in 2023.

This was indicated by India's new High Commissioner to Ottawa Dinesh Patnaik while addressing participants at the Insights India Forum, organised by the Canada-India Business Council (C-IBC) in Toronto on Thursday.

"I'm saying that we have progressed so far ahead that rather than confine ourselves to an EPTA, we might as well go the full hog," he said.

He pointed out that India has completed trade agreements with Australia and the United Kingdom and is closing ...