Modi meets Canadian CEOs, bankers, visits Kanishka memorial

Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept a busy final day schedule in Canada on Thursday, meeting Canadian CEOs, bankers and pension fund managers to seek investment for India and also paid a visit to the Kanishka Air India Memorial site here.

Modi met Canadian bankers and pension fund managers at a roundtable here on Thursday and pitched for investments in India.

He also met Mark Wiseman (CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board).

"Business before breakfast PM @narendramodi meets bankers, pension fund managers & pitches for investments from Canada," tweeted Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson of the external affairs ministry.

"Demand to do business with India has gone up exponentially; India now on top of our list- Canadian investors to PM," he added.

Justin Trudeau, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, accompanied by his daughter, called on Modi.

Later, both Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to the Kanishka Air India Memorial, where both laid flower wreaths and met the relatives of the victims who had gathered there.

The memorial is dedicated to the 329 people, mostly Canadians of Indian-origin, who were killed in the June 23, 1985, terror-hit Air India plane crash. The memorial was built in 2007. The Air India flight 182 was blown up by militants.

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.

In the Canadian capital Ottawa, India's National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) on Thursday signed 13 memoranda of understanding with 12 Canadian educational institutions, including nine colleges.

Modi arrived in Toronto from Ottawa on Wednesday and addressed a 10,000-strong crowd of Indo-Canadians.

He will travel to Vancouver, from where he will fly back to India.