--- title: Malala Yousafzai and Justin Trudeau Discuss Politics VIDEO description: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai teased hip Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau about his tattoos and his love of yoga. canonical: https://time.com/4740109/malala-yousafzai-on-justin-trudeau-tattoos/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-14T15:48:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:49.603Z og:title: Watch Malala Yousafzai Tease Justin Trudeau About His Tattoo og:description: The Nobel Laureate was awarded an honorary Canadian citizenship og:url: https://time.com/4740109/malala-yousafzai-on-justin-trudeau-tattoos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf81875d626a4aa/6988c2cd196cf46ea203fab8/malala-justin-trudeau-tattoos.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CANADA-OTTAWA-MALALA-HONORARY CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Malala Yousafzai Tease Justin Trudeau About His Tattoo twitter:description: The Nobel Laureate was awarded an honorary Canadian citizenship twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf81875d626a4aa/6988c2cd196cf46ea203fab8/malala-justin-trudeau-tattoos.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Malala Yousafzai Tease Hip Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau About His Tattoos  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 14, 2017 3:48 PM UTC  OTTAWA, April 12, 2017 -- Nobel Prize laureate and newly designated UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai (L) speaks during the meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, capital of Canada, on April 12, 2017\. Nobel Prize laureate and newly designated UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan Wednesday addressed the Canadian parliament after accepting a honorary Canadian citizenship from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Xinhua/David Kawai via Getty Images) OTTAWA, April 12, 2017 -- Nobel Prize laureate and newly designated UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai (L) speaks during the meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, capital of Canada, on April 12, 2017\. Nobel Prize laureate and newly designated UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan Wednesday addressed the Canadian parliament after accepting a honorary Canadian citizenship from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Xinhua/David Kawai via Getty Images)Xinhua News Agency—Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 14, 2017 3:48 PM UTC It’s no big secret that [Justin Trudeau](http://time.com/4391217/justin-trudeau-canada-day-eh/), Canadian Prime Minister and [ardent feminist](http://motto.time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/), is achingly hip; one need only look so far as [the now-viral photos of him during his scruffy, rugged younger years](http://time.com/4687015/young-justin-trudeau/) or his [bromance with equally charismatic world leader Prince Harry](http://time.com/4314849/prince-harry-justin-trudeau-met/) to know that Trudeau is the definition of charming. So it should come as no surprise that [Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai](http://time.com/collection-post/3822637/malala-yousafzai-2015-time-100/) riffed on the prime minister’s cool factor while addressing the Canadian Parliament and accepting an honorary Canadian citizenship. Yousafzai poked some fun at Trudeau’s decidedly youthful markers of taste, while praising his gender equity for women. --- > “” --- Yousafzai later emphasized that age should be no factor when it comes to leadership, again referencing how much Trudeau has accomplished as the second-youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history. “While it may be true that he is young for a head of government, I would like to tell the children of Canada: you do not have to be as old as Prime Minister Trudeau to be a leader,” she said. 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