OTTAWA — After years of distrust and accusations, tense relations between Canada and India are starting to defrost.

On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended Prime Minister Mark Carney an invitation to his country for talks — further signs that relations between the two nations are normalizing.

But are these overtures two long-time allies mending fences, or is this reconciliation more about strategy and pragmatism?

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“The (Hardeep Singh) Nijjar investigation continues, and it should, but Carney’s showing that defending Canadian values doesn’t mean cutting off dialog,” Alan Kessel, former Canadian diplomat and Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow, told the Toronto Sun about the shifting

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