Ethics Committee to Be Recalled This Week to Probe Trudeau’s Jamaica Trip

Published on January 15, 2024

MPs are recalling the ethics committee to probe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Jamaica vacation, citing concerns about the changing statements from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on how the trip was funded. “Serious questions have been raised over the prime minister’s trip to Jamaica and if it breaks Canada’s ethics law,” reads a joint statement signed by Conservative MPs Michael Barrett, Jacques Gourde, and Damien Kurek, and Bloc Québécois MP René Villemure. “These questions are rooted in the changing stories the Prime Minister’s Office has provided on who paid for the vacation.” In the statement shared on the social media platform X, the MPs called on John Brassard, the chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics, to recall the committee to commence a parliamentary investigation into the matter “at the earliest opportunity.”...