Canada and India are in many ways natural partners-two middle powers sharing a common political and legal tradition derived from the British Commonwelath, as well as a commitment to multiculturalism, democracy adn international institutions. India's founding Prime Minsiter Jawaharlal nehry had a personal friendship with Canadian Prime Ministers Trudeau and Pearson. Despite this promising start, bilateral relations never took flight-a functiona of Cold War politics, India's relative isolation through much of the post-indepenendence period, the enormous distance between the two countries, and , deep disagreements over India's testing of nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998. By the start of the new millennium, India and Canada were ready to embark on a new phase in bilateral relations-one defined not only by trade and investment interests, but also by a contemporary understanding of their standing in the world, and the potential contribution that both countries can make to issues of regional and global significance. About Author : Charan D. Wadhva, Ph.D. (Yale University, USA) is Research Professor and the Former President and Chief Executive at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. He has served as Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. he also held the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professorship at that Institute. He was the first Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi.Yuen Pau Woo is Vice President and Chief Economist of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. he is a member of the standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and Chair of the forecasting panel for the Pacific Economic Outlook. Mr. Woo is also Direcor of the APEC Study Centre in Canada. He has written extensively on Asia Pacific economic issues and on Canada-India relations. Mr. Woo sits on the boards of the Standards Council of Canada and Technology Training Associates Inc. Contents : Foreword by the President,Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, IndiaForeword by the Chairman, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Vancouver, CanadaList of AcronmysIntroductionPerspectives on Regionalism in AsiaPerspectives on World Trade Organisation and Doha Development AgendaStrengthening Canada-India Bilateral RelationsList of ContributrsIndex