JOE BIDEN SAYS :MICHELLE OBAMA IS THE FINEST FIRST LADY IN U.S HISTORY
TORONTO — Two prominent figures in U.S. politics are north of the border for separate
speaking engagements in Toronto Tuesday.
Former first lady Michelle Obama will be speaking about education and equality for girls and
women around the world at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Canada and Plan International
Canada.
Later in the day, former vice-president Joe Biden will be the headline speaker for a conference
called The Art of Leadership.
Dozens of ticket holders — most of them young women — filled the atrium of Ryerson
University's Mattamy Athletic Centre in anticipation of Obama's appearance Tuesday
morning.
"I'm excited to hear her talk about education and women's equality, (topics) I'm really
interested in learning more about," said Karen Zhuang, a high school student from Toronto.
"She's always been a role model for me."
Kanwarpreet Karwal, a Plan Canada youth ambassador nd fourth-year life sciences student at McMaster
University said it was inspiring to see so many young people turn up, hoping to create
change.
"I'm just excited to learn whatever I (can) take away and implement in my life so
that I can make a positive contribution in this world," Karwal said.
The Economic Club of Canada has said the former first lady will be participating in a "fireside
chat-style" conversation at the event that is closed to the media.
The organization's president and CEO have said a number of tickets purchased for the
event were to be donated to a young person between the ages of 14 and 24, with young
people across the country able to apply to attend through a site set up by Plan International
Canada.
Rebecca Frost, a second-year student from Queen's University, was one of those who
had applied for a ticket and said she looked forward to Obama's take on the economics
of gender equality."She's an inspiring woman," Frost said of the former first lady.
"She just has a lot of wisdom to share."
The Obama-Biden visits are the latest in a string of trips north by well-known American
politicians.
Former Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
were in Montreal last month to promote her new book.
She also spoke in Toronto in September and is scheduled to speak in Vancouver on Dec.
13.
Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, also visited Montreal last month to discuss
the Canada-U.S. relationship with former prime minister Jean Chretien, and U.S Senator Bernie
Sanders was at the University of Toronto last month to heap praise on Canada's health
care system.
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