The key to a successful Canada-India trade relationship, according to Dinesh Patnaik (right), is to have “structured conversations” between both sides that are focused solely on business and avoid other issues. Photo by Contributed/Canada-India Business Council/Postmedia files

For someone who just arrived in Canada two weeks ago, India’s new high commissioner seems surprisingly confident of achieving a goal the two nations have failed to reach since 2010 — sign a comprehensive trade deal .

At a Toronto event on Thursday, Dinesh Patnaik likened the trade relationship between India and Canada to both a disappointing Bollywood movie with no songs and later to a plane struggling to land amidst the fog.

“It’s the government’s duty to get rid of the fog,” he said at an event organized

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