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Canadian Prime minister Justin Trudeau (2nd from R) leading the 2018 Montreal Pride parade along with his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Canadien actor Antoni Porowski (R) in Montreal, Quebec on August 19, 2018.<br />/ AFP PHOTO / Eric THOMAS

Canada’s opposition leader will travel to India to “repair” bilateral ties he said were harmed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was dogged by controversies on his first official trip there earlier this year.

Tory leader Andrew Scheer said he would meet this fall with Indian officials as well as business, civil society and religious leaders, likely in a bid to shore up support among Canada’s large Indian diaspora ahead of next year’s general election.

Indo-Canadians number about 500,000, representing only 1.4 percent of…



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