Prime Minister Stephen Harper began a three-day tour of India today with a pitch to the business crowd in Mumbai to do more to increase trade between the two countries.
"Our countries share tremendous commercial interests and have great potential for increased trade," Harper said. "Between us, our GDP is well on its way to four trillion dollars. Yet at the moment, we are only doing five billion dollars worth of business per year."
One of the sectors that Mr. Harper wants to help is tourism. He announced that the Canadian Tourism Commission, which is an agency by the Government of Canada, would launch a campaign to attract more Indian travellers to Canada. To help with that pitch, Mr. Harper used one of Bollywood's biggest film stars.
Mr. Harper said that Akshay Kumar, Bollywood's answer to Brad Pitt, would travel to Canada to participate in the cross-country Olympic torch run. Kumar will carry the torch in Toronto on December 17, 2009.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper began a three-day tour of India today with a pitch to the business crowd in Mumbai to do more to increase trade between the two countries.
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