Sitharaman pitches India to Canadian investors amid capital outflows

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is in Toronto, Canada, on a multi-day tour to attract Canadian investment, pitching India's infrastructure, technology, capital markets, and critical minerals sectors to major institutional investors and business leaders. The outreach, which began on August 26, 2026, is part of a broader nine-day visit to Canada and the United States aimed at strengthening economic ties and securing foreign capital amid a period of net outflows from Indian equity markets.

In a series of meetings with top Canadian financial executives, Sitharaman highlighted India's macroeconomic resilience, its large and growing domestic market, and ongoing reforms designed to improve investor protection, ease of doing business, and regulatory predictability. She met with leaders from Canaccord Genuity, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), and OMERS, encouraging them to deepen their engagement with India's infrastructure and emerging growth opportunities. Discussions focused on expanding institutional investment in areas such as transmission, renewable energy, roads, ports, urban infrastructure, digital infrastructure,...