An Indo-Canadian community has erected a series of billboards across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to thank India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending Covid-19 vaccines to Canada at the request of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

The billboards include an image of Modi against the flags of India in background and Canada, and “Thank You, India & PM Narendra Modi” is written, adding, “Long Live Canada-India Friendship”.

A total of nine billboards towered over major highways in the GTA with four more locations scheduled for Monday in the town of Brampton.

“Our objective is to highlight the natural friendship between Canada and India and to highlight this positive development with India sending vaccines to Canada,” said Rao Yendamuri, president of Hindu Forum Canada, the community group behind the billboard campaign.

India’s Covishield vaccines arrived in Canada last Wednesday. A total of two million Covid-19 doses will be extorted to Canada by mid-May under the agreement.