Aga Khan affair
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 by accepting private-island vacations, gifts, and flights from the Aga Khan, a philanthropist and spiritual leader of the Shia Ismailism movement. This was deemed significant as the Aga Khan Foundation, a registered lobby, had received over $50 million of federal funding in 2016.

Justin Trudeau adopted the position that he and the Aga Khan were close friends, and the trips were of a personal nature. 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.

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.”
Q16
Canada
LOC
Q839078
Prime Minister
PER
Q3099714
Justin Trudeau
PER
Q311793
Aga Khan
PER
Q8619
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
PER
Q6779303
Mary Dawson
PER
Q138345
Liberal Party
ORG
Q104879134
Aga Khan affair
UNK
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2017
DATE
2020-05-11T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
5,11
DATE
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2016
DATE
1983-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1983
DATE
+12^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
12
NUMBER
+21^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
21
NUMBER
+1^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1
NUMBER
+50^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
50
NUMBER
office held by head of government
head of government
country
position held
country of citizenship