The recent G-7 Summit at Kananaskis, Canada, may not have lit up the global stage with dramatic breakthroughs, but it managed to spark at least one positive development—India and Canada agreed to reset their strained bilateral ties.

While the summit itself was marked by a conspicuous lack of consensus among participating leaders and even featured the abrupt exit of US President Donald Trump, who offered a flimsy excuse about “urgent work” back home, the real diplomatic progress unfolded on the sidelines. For the better part of a year, Indo-Canadian relations had been in deep freeze.

The assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a known Khalistani separatist, outside a gurdwara in British Columbia in 2023 triggered a........

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