Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed hope that with Prime Minister Narendra Modi back for a third term, talks with India can resume on "some very serious issues around national security and keeping Canadians safe and the rule of law" -- issues that had caused friction between the two nations last year.

Mr Trudeau had voiced his expectation in an interview with CBC News today. "There's alignment on a number of big issues that we need to work on, as democracies (and) as a global community," he said.

"But now that he (Modi) is through his election, I think there is an opportunity forIndia-Canada ties have been under strain since last year, after Mr Trudeau's allegations about the "potential" involvement of Indian government agents in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, one of India's most-wanted terrorists, who was also a Canadian citizen.

India has rejected the allegations as "absurd" and "motivated" and expressed concern about Canada becoming a hub of pro-Khalistan Sikhs -- which Canada has so far not acknowledged.Mr Trudeau's comments came after PM Modi tweeted a photo of their meeting on the sidelines of the G7 meet in Italy.

Unlike the photos of his interactions with other leaders he tweeted -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni -- the caption for the meeting with Mr Trudeau was just a one-liner.