She also gave her own input, enthusiastically contributing to the round table discussion after welcoming Trudeau and entrepreneur women to the White House.
`I`m honored to be here and really looking forward to hearing from each of you who serve as tremendous role models for me and so many other business leaders across both of our countries,` she said, `and can lend some tremendously valuable perspective as we think about the unique challenges that entrepreneurs, women in the workforce, female small business owners are confronted with each and every day, and as we think how we level the playing field for this generation and for the next.`
President Trump proudly told the room how Ivanka had been `very involved` in building the newly-announced task force and that he appreciated her help.
She spent the morning getting ready at home with the help of an entourage of stylists before traveling to the White House in a blacked out SUV.
The task force will be known as The United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs. White House aides said it was an interest shared by both the Canadian and US administrations.
The cause is close to Ivanka`s heart, serving as the inspiration for her first book Women Who Work. It is also a common theme among advertising campaigns for her clothes and accessories lines.
The president said later, at a joint presser that he and Trudeau know that the `full power of women can be better than anyone else. We know that.`
Ivanka`s husband Jared is a senior advisor to her father at the White House. She left the Trump Organization and her own business to move with him to Washington. She`s been seen at the White House several times since her father moved in, accompanying his to Dover Air Force Base to receive a fallen solider. Today was the first time she`d been seen in a policy meeting, however.
Eager to look the part, Ivanka enjoyed the help of an entourage to get ready at home before.
The glam squad flocked to her DC home as Jared Kushner set off for an early morning in his role as Senior Adviser to the President.
One associate was frisked with a metal detector before she was allowed to enter.
Jared set off at 7.35am, minutes after the first of Ivanka`s stylists arrived. They left shortly before 9am and Ivanka, 35, followed around an hour later.
Earlier on Monday morning, President Trump gave a warm welcome to Prime Minister Trudeau who he greeted outside the West Wing before a photo-opp in the Oval Office.
The pair seemed happy to be in one another`s company, with Trudeau familiarly planting one arm on President Trump`s bicep as they shook hands.
Trudeau has said he expects to `find a lot of common ground` with the Republican president, despite their disagreements over trade.
The Canadian PM was supportive of Barack Obama`s Trans-Pacific Partnership and said in November he`d `miss` his American counterpart.
Trump believes that TPP, which he nixed his first few days in office, and NAFTA have been bad for American workers and is expected to talk about restructuring free trade between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north today.
Trudeau on Friday said he intends to `defend and demonstrate Canadian values` in his meetings at the White House today but `respectfully and not from an ideological standpoint.`
He has also spoken out against Trump`s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations. The ban, which has since been lifted by a federal judge who deemed it `unconstitutional`, prevented citizens from affected countries from entering the US regardless of whether or not they held valid visas or green cards.
Prime Minister Trudeau reacted to it with an emotional plea to Muslim immigrants who he said were always welcome in Canada. The following day, a white gunman killed six people in a terror attack at a Quebec mosque.
This afternoon the PM and the president will deliver a progress report at a joint press conference.
`I`m honored to be here with Prime Minister Trudeau. His father I knew and respected greatly, and he gave me a picture of myself and your father, and what a great picture I will keep that in a very special place, at the Waldorf-Astoria, together,` Trump said, making reference to a famous New York City hotel.
Trudeau`s father Pierre was also prime minister.
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