Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta later this month, an invitation Modi accepted despite strained ties between the countries.

By Ryan Patrick Jones, Sakshi Dayal and Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada said Prime Minister Mark Carney invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to the upcoming Group of Seven summit in a phone call on Friday,

Support for the invitation came from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who said, "India has been at the last six G7 conferences. It's one of the biggest and fastest-growing economies in the world. We need to sell our natural gas, our civilian nuclear power technology and other resource projects to India."