The Conservative leader and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh accused Trudeau of flaunting his elite pedigree at a time when Canadians are scaling back.
OTTAWA—As a child, Justin Trudeau almost got stuck in a coconut tree in Jamaica while on vacation with his father.Opposition parties pounced Tuesday after details surfaced about the Trudeau family’s winter vacation: he travelled toConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh accused Trudeau of flaunting his elite pedigree at a time when Canadians are scaling back their own spending due to inflationary pressures.
Among other things, there is a 1975 photo in the National Library of Jamaica’s digital collection that “Their father was godfather to one of my brothers. This is 50 years of friendship. Of course we worked with the ethics commissioner to make sure all the rules were followed.” But though Trudeau’s office confirmed he reimbursed the equivalent of a commercial airline ticket for his personal travel, he refused to answer repeated questions about who, exactly, paid for his family’s accommodations.
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