Toronto, April 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Canadian bankers and pension fund managers at a business meet here on Thursday and pitched for investments in India.
“Business before breakfast PM @narendramodi meets bankers, pension fund managers & pitches for investments from Canada,” Syed Akbaruddin spokesperson of the external affairs ministry tweeted.
Canada is the last leg of Modi’s three-nation tour, during which he has pushed the ambitious “Make in India” initiative and signed several agreements, including a deal on the supply of uranium to power India’s civilian nuclear programme.
He arrived in Toronto from Ottawa on Wednesday and addressed a 10,000-strong crowd of Indo-Canadians.
On Thursday, he will also visit the memorial of the victims of the Air India flight 182 that was bombed in 1985.
He will travel to Vancouver later, from where he will fly back to India.