Posted July 31, 2022 at 5:06 pm
Updated July 31, 2022 6:58 pm
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-ONE Larger font Increase the font size of the article A+ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation with his family. The Prime Minister’s Office says the family is returning to the same place they stayed over the 2019 Christmas holidays and is paying for their own accommodation. The prime minister must fly on a Royal Canadian Air Force plane for security reasons — even for personal travel — and the family’s flights on the last trip to and from Costa Rica cost the government about $57,000, without spending thousands more on flight crew accommodation in San Jose. That said, there were exceptions to these flying rules. Earlier this summer, for example, Trudeau flew an RCAF jet to Munich, Germany, to attend the G7 summit, but was flown to the summit site in the Bavarian Alps in a German police helicopter. This exemption was approved with the relevant authorities according to senior PMO aides. Trending Stories
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Story continues below ad But in 2017, Trudeau used an RCAF jet to fly from Ottawa to Nassau in the Bahamas and, from there, flew a private helicopter to the Aga Khan’s Bahamian island. Trudeau did not report the flight to authorities. That flight along with the free vacation he received from the Aga Khan was subsequently found by Parliament’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner to be in violation of federal conflict of interest laws. The PMO says it has consulted the ethics commissioner’s office about the upcoming holiday. The PMO says Trudeau will have regular updates while he is away. – with files from David Akin © 2022 The Canadian Press
