India and Canada have similar concerns

Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper along with his wife Mrs Laureen calls on Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Mr. Shivraj V. Patil at Punjab Raj Bhavan.Mr. Tim Upal, Minister of Democratic Reforms and Mr. Baljit Singh Gosal Minister of State for sports in the cabinet of Canada are also seen in the picture.

by Punjabnewswire4u

CHANDIGARH, NOV 7

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper along with his wife Mrs Laureen, today called on Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Mr. Shivraj V. Patil at Punjab Raj Bhavan.

        Discussing various issues at length, Mr. Patil said that India and Canada have longstanding bilateral relations and strong socio-cultural linkages. He said India and Canada are nations on shared values. We have similar concerns in combating terrorism, extremism and radicalism.

        Mr. Patil said that there was a major scope to further expand economic and business cooperation in wide range of fields like Information Technology, marketing of agricultural produce, sharing of educational tools and technologies, Biotechnology and Nuclear power generation, which can be of immense mutual benefit of people on both sides.

        Mr. Patil further stressed that Punjab has achieved a major break through in the agriculture sector and allied fields and state is emerging as a progressive and vibrant investment destination. The State Government has evolved a responsive mechanism and coordinate farm our ventures and agri related activities in close coordination with the Scientific community of Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana. He said that bold initiatives have taken for generation of more power with focus on tapping solar energy to meet growing demand in different sector of economy. He suggested for strengthening partnerships in agri-related ventures especially food processing which has a major scope of collaboration.

        Mr. Tim Upal, Minister of Democratic Reforms and Mr. Baljit Singh Gosal Minister of State for sports in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mr. Stephen Harper both of  Punjab origin were also in the delegation met Punjab Governor.

        Prominent amongst others who were present in the meeting included Mr. M.P. Singh Principal Secretary to Governor and Mr. Rajbachan Singh Sandhu, ADC to Governor.