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Parliament Hill: Government Answer and Malala Yousafzai

parliament hill: The world needs leadership based on serving humanity not based on how many weapons you have, according to Huffington Post Canada. Canada can take that lead, Yousafzai said. Ambrose met with the 19-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and newly minted honorary Canadian citizen Wednesday after she used a speech to Parliament to charm and challenge Canadians to do more for girls' education. Malala Yousafzai speaks as she sits with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his Centre Block office during her visit to Parliament Hill for her Honorary Canadian Citizenship ceremony in Ottawa on April 12, 2017. I am asking that your government answer Malala's call, Ambrose writes in a letter to Trudeau released Thursday. Photo Justin Tang/The Canadian Press She urged the government to make the issue the central initiative of next years' G7 presidency, and also to host the replenishment conference of the Global Partnership for Education, a multilateral organization that has received close to 200 million in Canadian funding since 2007. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.