Justin Trudeau at IIM, Ahmedabad. "Citizens are not fools. Citizens can tell whether someone is genuine in their approach or just trying to live up to some lofty familial expectation.

On discrimination:  "Any comments about how a man looks isn't even an eyelash worth of the systemic discrimination women face. As a man in business and politics I had lots of advantage but I didn't go near discrimination, sexism, superficiality and judgement that women go through on daily."


The Canadian Prime Minister and his family today offered prayers at the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar and visited the Sabarmati Ashram as part of their day-long visit to Gujarat.


The family travelled straight to Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad after arriving in Gandhinagar this morning.

Trudeau, accompanied by his wife Sophie and their three children, visited Hriday Kunj, the place where Mahatma Gandhi lived and from where he ran the non-violence movement.

Dressed in traditional Indian clothes, they also tried their hand at Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel.

Canada's first family also spent nearly half an hour at the Akshardham temple here and offered flowers to the deity. "What an extraordinary place of peace. Thank you for sharing with me, with my family, with the world," Trudeau wrote in the visitors' book at the temple.

"In oneness. Shanti," wrote his wife Sophie Trudeau.