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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured speaking in Ottawa in February, talked women's rights at the Women in the World Summit in New York City this month, where organizers were charging US$350 per guest. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY JENN JEFFERYS

April 19, 2017

OTTAWA—At the cost of up to US$350 a head, guests got to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again take to the international spotlight this month to discuss women's rights at the Women in the World Summit in New York City. There, Trudeau conveyed what he seems to have haphazardly appropriated as �...

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