Prime Minister Stephen Harper

: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA - From trade, to energy, to the environment, to security, to culture, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have no shortage of topics to discuss with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the next three days, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Harper will also have an unspoken domestic political dividend — boosting his party standing with Canada 1.2 million Indo-Canadians as an October federal election looms. Modi is in Canada for a three-day visit. After a formal meeting Wednesday, Harper will accompany the charismatic Modi to Toronto and Vancouver and will have no less than 16 fellow Conservatives appearing with them at various events, from cabinet ministers to MPs. His tough talk towards Russia is seen as a way of courting the 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent, for instance. A number of prominent federal Conservative MPs, including Defence Minister Jason Kenney and Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre, were on hand to greet the Indian prime minister when his plane touched down Tuesday in Ottawa. "This seems to be a win-win situation for Harper," said Roland Paris, the founding director of the University of Ottawa Centre for International Policy Studies. "He can promote deeper economic and diplomatic links with India while also scoring political points at home with the Indo-Canadian community." Harper fondness for diaspora politics is well known. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.