Aga Khan affair

Aga Khan

Justin Trudeau

The Aga Khan affair was a political scandal in Canada involving Justin Trudeau and Aga Khan IV

The Aga Khan affair was a political scandal in Canada involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In 2017, Trudeau was found guilty of violating sections 5,11,12, and 21[1] of the Federal Conflict of Interest Act^[1] by accepting private-island vacations, gifts, and flights from the Aga Khan, a philanthropist and spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili religion. This was deemed significant as the Aga Khan Foundation, a registered lobby, had received over $50 million of federal funding in 2016.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Justin Trudeau adopted the position that he and the Aga Khan were close friends, and the trips were of a personal nature.^[5] This was ostensibly supported by a close relationship between Trudeau’s father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and the Aga Khan. Furthermore in 1983, when Justin Trudeau was twelve years old, their two families had undertaken a vacation together to Greece.^[1]

Then-Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson stated in her ruling however that Justin Trudeau and the Aga Khan had undertaken no serious social interactions for thirty years outside a single instance at the funeral of Pierre Elliot Trudeau; and that, “there were no private interactions between Mr. Trudeau and the Aga Khan until Mr. Trudeau became Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. This led me to conclude that their relationship cannot be described as one of friends for the purposes of the Act.”^[6]

^ ^a ^b "'I'm sorry,' Trudeau says after violating conflict laws with visits to Aga Khan's island | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "The Aga Khan trip and a glimpse into Trudeau's bad judgment - Macleans.ca". www.macleans.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Dec 20, Kelsey Johnson Published on; 2017 5:21pm (2017-12-20). "Trudeau broke conflict of interest rules: Dawson". iPolitics. Retrieved 2020-12-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Trudeau violated conflict-of-interest law with Aga Khan trips, ethics watchdog says". Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Justin Trudeau suffers the political consequences of a rarefied scandal | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Dawson, Kim (December 2017). "The Trudeau Report" (PDF). Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

[:0-1] "'I'm sorry,' Trudeau says after violating conflict laws with visits to Aga Khan's island | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

[:1-2] "The Aga Khan trip and a glimpse into Trudeau's bad judgment - Macleans.ca". www.macleans.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

[3] Dec 20, Kelsey Johnson Published on; 2017 5:21pm (2017-12-20). "Trudeau broke conflict of interest rules: Dawson". iPolitics. Retrieved 2020-12-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[4] "Trudeau violated conflict-of-interest law with Aga Khan trips, ethics watchdog says". Retrieved 2020-12-06.

[5] "Justin Trudeau suffers the political consequences of a rarefied scandal | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

[6] Dawson, Kim (December 2017). "The Trudeau Report" (PDF). Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

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