INDIA-CANADA
DISCUSS MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST
The Minister of Inter-Governmental
Affairs and Queen’s Privacy Council of Canada, H.E. Honstephane
Dion called on the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company
Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley here today and discussed with him matters
of mutual interest between Canada and India. The range of discussions
covered federalism, devolution of power from Centre to States
and Panchayati Raj and the common problem that the two countries
were facing at the federal level.
The Indian Law Minister,
Shri Arun Jaitley said that polity of India was based on parliamentary
democracy, federalism and decentralization wherein there were
3.5 million elected representatives administering the nation through
four-tier Governments in the country. Now the emphasis was on
more decentralization of power to the States, he added. The visiting
Canadian Minister H.E. Honstephane Dion gave an overview of the
workings of federalism and provinces in Canada and tried to establish
a chord of similarity between the two nations. They exchanged
thoughts and experience in the area of judicial administration
and working of the federalism between the two nations.
The meeting, held
in a cordial atmosphere, lasted half an hour.
