India, Nov. 15 -- After Ottawa announced the successful conclusion of negotiations towards a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN and the Philippines, Canada's Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu expressed confidence that India will be "the next one that we're going to get done."

That reference was to ongoing negotiations towards the comprehensive economic partnership agreement or CEPA. Sidhu travelled to India for three days last week as the sixth round of negotiations commenced.

"India will be the next one that we're going to get done," he told reporters in Manila, where he was accompanying Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to the ASEAN Summit. Sidhu travelled to Manila from India,...