Dalai Lama: Ottawa

The Dalai Lama Dept: OTTAWA - The Dalai Lama is praising Prime Minister Stephen Harper for balancing Canadian values such as human rights with the need to further economic ties with China, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The Dalai Lama was in Ottawa to attend a convention of world parliamentarians on Tibet. He also had a brief private meeting with Harper on Friday and the Dalai Lama acknowleges a gathering during a public address in Ottawa, Saturday April 28, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand "I think he managed it very well, keep close relation with China, at the same time his own democratic value, he stand firm, that s very good," the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said at a news conference that followed his public talk on Saturday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.