I'm not sure if we knew this already — I didn't so I guess it was news to me — but a very tired-sounding International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said on a conference call today that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not be able to visit Canada. (Day, in Mumbai where it was 10:30 pm was wrapping up a busy four day visit to India and he sounded like he was looking forward to getting back home.) Prime Minister Singh accepted Prime Minister Harper's invitation to visit Canada when the two met at the Commonwealth Summit in Kampala, Uganda last fall.
If memory serves, the news that Singh had accepted Harper's invitation was greeted with considerable excitement in Canada at the time.
Day did not elaborate on the reasons for Singh's change of heart and Day noted that Singh had, instead, invited Harper to visit India. If Harper accepts — and why wouldn't he? – my bet is that Harper squeezes in a day or two in India when he travels to Singapore next November for the annual leaders summit of APEC leaders.
This picture of Day meeting Singh was provided to me by the Government of Canada.