This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batch with my colleague Charles Burton in the McDonald

Lorry Institute. We're looking at the early days of the enmity between Ottawa and Delhi

over the allegation made by the Prime Minister in Parliament within these last hours about

a capital crime of a Canadian citizen in a parking lot in Canada by men who are wielding

automatic weapons who have not been apprehended. Charles, I wanted to speak to one thing I heard

on CBC this morning. We've spoken of the politics of this, the new Democratic Party, being

led by a man who may or may not be sympathetic to one of the other sides, but urging right

now the Prime Minister to pursue this. I also learned that India has a very significant

trade with one particular province of Canada, Saskatchewan. And what I heard on CBC was

that all members of Parliament from Saskatchewan are alarmed because they're concerned about

a breakoff in trade negotiations between Canada and India. Does this come immediately into

the problem as well that we're looking at during a time of Rafi economic recovery worldwide,

we're looking at a blow to one of your major agricultural foundations, Saskatchewan?

Yes, I think that's a very significant factor. You know, there is a sense within Canada

of alienation of the Western provinces, particularly Saskatchewan and Alberta, that they are not

given due consideration by the federal government, led by Prime Minister Trudeau, because I believe

that all of those 24 members of Parliament from Saskatchewan are conservatives and not liberals.

And so, you know, they, they liberals don't have a lot to lose by alienating a region of

the country that has historically been very unlikely to vote for the Liberal Party. I mean,

Saskatchewan accounts for about half of Canada's $2 billion a year trade within India, primarily

agricultural commodities, such as lentils, which apparently the Indians consume quite a lot of.

So, this matter also impacts on Canadian national unity. And I think the premier Saskatchewan is

...