OTTAWA, Feb. 16 -- There will be much style but little substance to emerge from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first state visit to India, according to international trade expert Vivek Dehejia.
"The one big missing piece is that we will not see the signing of a comprehensive economic and trade agreement that would have been a crowning achievement for this visit, which has been in the works since 2010," said Dehejia, an associate professor of economics and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa.
"There will be business roundtables and the usual photo opportunities at the Taj Mahal and the Golden Temple, and stuff like that."
Trudeau arrives in New Delhi on Saturday and will be in India until Feb. 23, with stops also scheduled in Agra, Amritsar, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. His visit follows 11 others to India by members of his cabinet since September 2016.
Negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Canada and India began in November 2010 when Stephen Harper, the former leader of Canada's Conservative Party, was Canada's prime minister. Harper had a "natural kinship" with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a fellow conservative, said Dehejia, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in New York City and is a resident senior fellow at the IDFC Institute, a think-tank in Mumabi.
But he also pointed out that neither leader was a scion of political dynasties as Trudeau, whose father Pierre, was also a Canadian prime minister and Rahul Gandhi, president of India's main opposition Congress party previously led by his mother, Sonia, as well his father Rajiv, his grandmother Indira and his maternal great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, who all served as Indian prime ministers.
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