The Conservatives are challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the release of RCMP documents that show the police had considered charging the prime minister over his 2016 vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.
The RCMP documents from 2019, recently obtained by the Globe and Mail through an access-to-information request, say the police had looked at whether they could charge Trudeau with breach of trust or fraud after the prime minister’s family took a Christmas vacation at the Ismaili Muslim leader’s private retreat in 2016.
The police investigation was based on a December 2017 report released by then-federal ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, who concluded that Trudeau had violated four sections of the Conflict of Interest Act by accepting the invitation, since some official business between the Aga Khan and the Canadian government was ongoing at the time.
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