Justin Trudeau

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Conservatives ask if Trudeau used 'get out of jail free card' before ... (CBC.ca)

The RCMP examined the possibility of charging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with fraud after investigating his 2016 family vacation on the Aga Khan's ...

Police investigators are not bound by the findings of an ethics commissioner, but the report notes that such investigations "should be given some deference." "Did the prime minister give himself the power to break the law?" The prime minister responded appropriately," Holland said.

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Trudeau faces backlash in House over inquiry into Aga Khan trip (The Globe and Mail)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family went to the Aga Khan's private island at Christmas, 2016, even though the Ismaili Muslim leader had millions of ...

“If a junior buying officer accepted a free vacation from someone selling pencils to government, he’d be charged. Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre also jumped on the controversy. Mr. Trudeau and his family went to the Aga Khan’s private island at Christmas, 2016, even though the Ismaili Muslim leader had millions of dollars in dealings with the federal government. Mr. Bezan and fellow Conservative Luc Berthold pressed the government to say whether the Prime Minister had “granted himself the power to break the law.” Because Mr. Trudeau is the head of government, the RCMP said, “it cannot be definitely determined whether or not Mr. Trudeau can simply provide consent to himself.” “The only reason the RCMP didn’t charge him was because he is the Prime Minister,” Conservative ethics critic James Bezan told the House of Commons on Monday. “So there is one law for the Prime Minister and another law for all the rest of us.”

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«Convoi de la liberté»: une commission d'enquête sur l'état d ... (Le Journal de Montréal)

Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a annoncé la création d'une commission d'enquête publique qui se penchera sur le recours à la Loi sur les mesures ...

La décision controversée avait permis, selon le gouvernement fédéral et la police d’Ottawa, de mettre fin au «convoi de la liberté» qui avait occupé le centre-ville de la capitale pendant un peu plus de trois semaines, entre le 28 janvier et le 20 février. La commission d’enquête indépendante «se penchera notamment sur l’évolution du convoi, les impacts du financement et de la désinformation, les conséquences économiques et les efforts des forces policières et des autres intervenants avant et après la déclaration de l’état d’urgence», poursuit-on. Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a annoncé la création d’une commission d’enquête publique qui se penchera sur le recours à la Loi sur les mesures d’urgence par son gouvernement afin de mettre fin aux manifestations anti-mesures sanitaires qui ont ébranlé le pays au début de l’année.

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RCMP considered charging Trudeau with fraud for trip to Agha ... (Western Standard)

The RCMP decided not to charge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with fraud over his family's vacation to Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas, ...

Since 1981, the federal government has given nearly $330-million to the Aga Khan Foundation. Trudeau said he had a personal friendship with the Aga Khan, who was also friends with his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The Mounties examined whether they could charge Trudeau with breach of trust or fraud based on the findings in a report from the federal ethics commissioner.

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