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It’s not every day that the spouse of the prime minister opens the trading day at the Toronto Stock Exchange.

But that’s the scene that will play out Tuesday morning, when Sophie Gregoire Trudeau joins Farah Mohamed, the founder and chief executive at G(irls)20 — an organization that aims at cultivating a new generation of female leadership through targeted investments in education, social entrepreneurship and global experiences — to get the day’s proceedings underway.

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Tuesday is the International Day of the Girl; two other organizations, FitSpirit/Fillactive and Plan International Canada will be part of Tuesday’s ceremony.

Mohamed will also be there to announce an investing platform, the first time that the organization has reached beyond its two normal ways of fundraising: sponsorship dollars or fundraising efforts.

“It’s a very calculated change. We are very purposeful in the language we are using in terms of seeing girls and women as a resource that you need to invest in,” said Mohamed, who launched the organization in 2009, initially with the help of the Belinda Stronach Foundation. Two years later G(irls)20 became an independent organization.