On clean energy and renewable energy front, a couple of large solar and wind announcements have happened last year. We are working very closely with the Ministry of Power, on hydroelectricity as a clean energy option, and some capacity building. We did a joint workshop with the Ministry of Power. We had a lot of support from Minister Piyush Goyal and his officials on hydroelectricity development. The first shipment of uranium took place in December 2015, and that’s part of nuclear energy, which is a clean energy option. So that relationship is very strong. All of those areas that we have discussed, there’s been a lot happening. But I believe we are still at the infancy of our potential. And so I think we can do more, and you’ll see the momentum continuing. Our focus now is that when you see a 30 per cent increase on year-by-year trade, that’s great, but how do you keep that going. And when you look at the fact that Canada is a 2 trillion dollar economy, and so is India, 8.2 billion CAD is still small relative to our full potential. So we want to see more. 

Also, since we last interviewed you, Indian Canadians have more than doubled their representation in Canadian Parliament, from 8 to 19. In some ways is this going to bring more robustness and possibilities to the current engagement between the two nations?

Well, let me say three things here. First of all, this is a true reflection of Canada’s multiculturalism, open society, Canada’s diversity. It is a country that anyone can succeed in any domain. Secondly, our new Government has made it a priority to leverage diversity, harness diversity, and value diversity of the population, and that’s cultural, linguistic, religious. It is part of our values. To see 19 Parliamentarians of Indian origin is a record. The most at any one point was 10, and in the previous Parliament, as you say, we had 8. So, it has almost doubled, the most we’ve ever had, which is very significant. And then our cabinet—Prime Minister Trudeau appointed 30 cabinet ministers, 4 of those cabinet ministers are of Indian origin, so more than 10 per cent are of Indian origin. And, of course, 50 per cent of our cabinet is made up of women. So for us diversity includes Indian diaspora, their ethnicities and also women, and we are focusing on that diversity and leveraging that.