Govetnment of Canada has announced to open a trade office in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Announcing this on Wednesday at a function organised by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Toronto, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his key note address said if his government was elected back next month, it will open a new trade office in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

REL Aryan, High Commissioner of India; Deeps Iberia, Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, welcomed the Prime Ministers decision to open Trade Office in Ahmadabad.

Over 400 businessmen from India and Canada attended the function.

Stephen Harper has already announced new trade offices in Kolkata and Hyderabad. Canada has expanded it’s operations at trade missions in Delhi and Mumbai recently.

Gujarat has Netherland’s trade office for last some years in Ahmedabad. Canada would be second nation to open it’s trade office in Gujarat which is the most industrialized and speedy developing state in India.