Canada is looking to boost energy trade with India in bid to cut dependence on U.S.

Canada is looking at boosting energy exports to India in a bid to diversify its customer base and cut dependence on supply to the United States, its Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said on Tuesday.

Hodgson told the Indian Energy Week conference that exporting 98 per cent of its energy to the United States was a “strategic blunder,” and saw an opportunity to work with India.