OTTAWA - India's new envoy to Canada rejected Foreign Minister Anita Anand's claim that New Delhi has agreed to restore Canada's full complement of diplomats.

Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik said Ottawa must first resolve delays in accrediting his diplomatic staff in Canada.

"It's a reciprocal trust," Patnaik told The Canadian Press in an interview last Thursday. "Trust has to be built up on both sides."

His comments come as the Carney government pursues a reset of its relations with India — two years after Ottawa accused New Delhi of playing a role in assassinating a Sikh activist near Vancouver, and one year after the RCMP accused the Indian government of involvement in homicides and acts of extortion and coercion in Canada.

Ottawa removed most of its diplomats from India in

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