Re: India, GZG-style (LONG)

> Certainly the ties between Britain and India are strong, with
> people of Indian decent making up 2.5% of the British population
making them
> the largest of the ethnic minority's. Also, with the war on terror, It
looks
> like India and the USA have gotten a lot more interested in each other
> (mutual distrust of Pakistan being a major factor). Canada and India
must
> also get along, the only nation I can recall Canada really falling out
with
> recently is Spain.

Canadians of Indian decent are roughly the same percentage as in
Britain, 
with the 2001 census listing 713,330 out of a total Canadian population
of 
30,007,094. However, Canada also has: 74,015 of Pakastani origin, 61,315
of 
Sri Lankan origin, 47,155 of Punjabi origion, and 39,075 of Tamil
origin. 
Adding all these together gives a total for the Indian subcontinent of 
934,890, or about 3% of the Canadian population. 

Canada has reasonably close relations with India and Pakistan. I know
that in 
the 80s and early 90s Canada had a better relationship with most of the 
Commonwealth than Britain did due to Canada's views about South Africa.
I 
think it's quite safe to say that if India in the far future has a good 
relatonship with Britain that it will also have a good relationship with

Canada, and thus the NAC in general.