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It will be Harper's first trip to India and his office has a jam-packed dawn-to-dusk itinerary that includes political, commercial, cultural and spiritual events.

He will, for example, visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar and, in Delhi, lay a wreath at Raj Ghat, the cremation site of Mahatma Gandhi. In New Delhi, he will visit Chabad House, the Jewish outreach centre that was attacked by Pakistani Islamist terrorists in 2008.

In addition to meeting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Harper will also have a meeting with Sonia Gandhi, the influential chairwoman of the United Progressive Alliance.

"This is a very ambitious agenda for India," said Dimitri Soudas, Harper's chief spokesman. "There is a tremendous amount of untapped potential to the Canada-India relationship."

A key focus for the trip will be improved trade relations with India, a country of 1.2 billion people whose economy is rapidly expanding despite the recession. Two-way trade between the two countries is tiny, at just $2 billion a year, but officials in both countries believe the time is right to increase that amount.

Officials with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., for example, will be in India during the prime minister's visit as they pursue opportunities in nuclear energy production. Other firms, like Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin, will be there hopeful of winning contracts to help India build up its public infrastructure. Indian investors are keen to tap into Canada's energy and natural resources sector.

While officials with the prime minister's office would not speculate on the types of trade deals they expect to discuss, Canadian industry officials believe Harper and Singh will announce that the two countries have agreed on a framework for negotiations that could lead to a free-trade agreement. The two countries are also close to completing negotiations on a foreign investor protection agreement or FIPA that is a crucial first step toward new Indian investments in Canada and Canadian investments there.

Harper, in fact, is scheduled to participate in a roundtable with Indian investors in Canada when he visits Mumbai on Monday.

But his time in India will focus on more than trade. At Harper's own insistence, his program includes a broad array of cultural, educational, and spiritual events.

"The case for stronger relations between Canada and India (is) rooted in our histories — our parliamentary democracies, our federalist systems, our legal codes, and even our use of the English language are derived from our shared heritage," said Soudas. "But there's something more profound that unites us, which is pluralism, the rich pattern of regional, ethnic and cultural diversity."

He plans, for example, to visit the television studio where Dance Premier League is filmed. Dance Premier League is a wildly popular reality show in which teams of dance contestants compete. Several Indo-Canadian teams are in the running and one of the judges, Shiamak Davar, is a permanent resident of Canada and operates dance schools in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

In Singapore on Saturday and Sunday, Harper will participate in the annual leaders summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum. Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama will likely be the stars of that summit, but Harper's advisers say he will pursue "an aggressive" schedule of one-on-one meetings with a variety of leaders to push Canada's trade agenda of lowered trade barriers.

APEC countries account for about half of the world's trade.It will be Harper's first trip to India and his office has a jam-packed dawn-to-dusk itinerary that includes political,... more