Trudeau and family head to Costa Rica for 2-week vacation – National
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Costa Rica for a two-week trip together with his household.
The Prime Minister’s Workplace says the household is returning to the identical place the place they stayed over the Christmas vacation in 2019 and that they’re paying for their very own lodging.
The prime minister should fly on a Royal Canadian Air Power airplane for safety causes — even for private journey — and the household’s flights on the final journey to and from Costa Rica price the federal government about $57,000, with out hundreds extra spent on flight crews’ keep in San Jose.
That stated, there have been exceptions to these flight guidelines. Earlier this summer season, for instance, Trudeau flew on an RCAF plane to Munich, Germany to take part within the G7 summit however he was flown to the summit website within the Bavarian Alps on a German police helicopter. That exception was cleared with the the suitable authorities in response to senior PMO aides.
However in 2017, Trudeau used an RCAF jet to fly from Ottawa to Nassau, The Bahamas and, from there, flew on a personal helicopter to the Bahamas island owned by the Aga Khan. Trudeau didn’t clear that flight with the suitable authorities. That flight together with the free trip he acquired from the Aga Khan was subsequently discovered by Parliament’s Battle of Curiosity and Ethics Commissioner to be a violation of federal battle of curiosity legal guidelines.
The PMO says it consulted with the workplace of the ethics commissioner concerning the coming vacation.
The PMO says Trudeau will get common briefings whereas he’s away.
– with recordsdata from David Akin
