Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta later this month, an invitation Modi accepted despite strained ties between the countries.

Mark Carney has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, marking a shift in Canada-India relations that had soured in recent years.The two spoke over the phone on Friday,

A group of Canadian Sikh organizations is calling on members of Parliament to denounce Prime Minister Mark Carney’s invitation to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to next week’s G7 leaders’ meeting.