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Date: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Subject: Attn Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.I just called both your offices and left voicemails Correct?
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Justice Minister Arif Virani addresses the media with NWT Premier R.J. Simpson – October 18, 2024
The Aga Khan affair was a political scandal in Canada involving Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau. In 2017, Trudeau was found guilty of violating sections 5,11,12, and 21[1] of the Federal Conflict of Interest Act[1] by accepting private-island vacations, gifts, and flights from the Aga Khan, a philanthropist and spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili religion. This was deemed significant as the Aga Khan Foundation, a registered lobby, had received over $50 million of federal funding in 2016.[2][3][4]
Justin Trudeau adopted the position that he and the Aga Khan were close friends, and the trips were of a personal nature.[5] 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.[1]
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.”[6]
December 2016 Vacation
On December 26, 2016 Justin Trudeau and his family left Canada to travel to the Aga Khan’s private residence at Bell Cay, The Bahamas, via Nassau.[1] Over the course of the trip Trudeau would travel to and from various locations via the Aga Khan’s personal helicopters.
During his stay on Bell Cay, Trudeau met with the Aga Khan, as well as then-United States Secretary of StateJohn Kerry who was also visiting the island at the time. This meeting was entirely coincidental and not unusual as in the six months prior, Bell Cay had entertained 178 guests. Trudeau stated that although all interactions were of a purely social nature, the topic of the US administration did come up.[7]
The vacation lasted until January 4, 2017: eight days in total. It was later disclosed that government expenditures for the trip had amounted to CA$215,000.[8]
This was later followed by the Aga Khan Foundation receiving an amount of $50 million in funding and donations from the Liberal government of Canada.[9]
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2024/07/11/statement-prime-minister-imamat-day
Statement by the Prime Minister on Imamat Day
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Imamat Day:
“Today, on Imamat Day, we join Ismaili Muslims in Canada and around the world in celebrating the 67th anniversary of the accession of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV as the 49th hereditary Imam.
“Since becoming Imam, the Aga Khan’s spiritual leadership has been guided by compassion, generosity, and tolerance – values held closely by Canadians. Through the Aga Khan Development Network, His Highness has helped improve the lives of millions of people around the world, from expanding access to health services to promoting gender equality and addressing barriers to education.
“The Aga Khan’s commitment to peace and human rights has had a profound impact on Canada. Through initiatives like the Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, His Highness is helping promote equality and intercultural understanding. In recognition of his various contributions to our country, the Aga Khan was appointed as an honorary Companion of the Order of Canada in 2005 and was granted honorary Canadian citizenship in 2010.
“The Aga Khan has been a steadfast advocate for inclusivity, pluralism, and respect for all. Here in Canada, we take inspiration from this work, and we reaffirm our commitment to put an end to systemic racism and discrimination in our communities, particularly amid the disturbing rise in Islamophobia and antisemitism. Let us be clear – there is no place for hate in Canada.
“On Imamat Day, let us reflect on the Aga Khan’s leadership and recommit to building a more inclusive, fair, and prosperous world for everyone.
“Khushiali Mubarak!”
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.4990602
From: David Amos<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Fwd: The first question I would have asked Jody.Wilson-Raybould is why did she snub the Senate committee on the corporate corruption bill
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:00:31 -0400
Subject: The first question I would have asked Jody.Wilson-Raybould is
why did she snub the Senate committee on the corporate corruption bill
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Wilson-Raybould snubbed Senate committee on corporate corruption bill
By Joan Bryden in News, Politics | February 17th 2019
Jody Wilson-Raybould, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General
of Canada, seen in the foyer of the House of Commons, in Parliament in
Ottawa on June 20, 2018. File photo by Alex Tétreault
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould angered senators by
refusing to give testimony on a change to the Criminal Code that is
now at the centre of allegations that she was improperly pressured to
help SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution.
The Criminal Code amendment was stuffed into an omnibus budget
implementation bill last year and got little scrutiny from MPs on the
House of Commons finance committee.
But when it got to the Senate, the upper chamber's legal and
constitutional affairs committee was tasked with scrutinizing the
provision, which allows prosecutors to negotiate remediation
agreements, a kind of plea bargain, in cases of corporate corruption.
The committee held extensive hearings last May and heard from an array
of expert witnesses, including Justice Department officials, who
suggested that some questions were best put to the minister of
justice. The committee invited Wilson-Raybould but she did not show
up. In her stead, the government sent her parliamentary secretary,
Liberal MP Marco Mendicino, and Public Services Minister Carla
Qualtrough.
"It's very unusual to study a bill, especially in the criminal domain,
and to not have the minister responsible appear before the committee,"
Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu observed at the time. "I
would like to know why the minister of justice is not here herself."
Qualtrough said it was her "understanding" that Wilson-Raybould
"wasn't available." Qualtrough, who is responsible for the
government's broader corporate-integrity agenda, acknowledged that she
was "not technically, obviously, representing Justice," but
nevertheless "felt myself capable to offer you some perspectives on
our government's position on these matters."
Senators on the committee were sufficiently miffed by
Wilson-Raybould's no-show to make an "observation" about it in their
final report: "The committee notes it did not have the opportunity to
hear the testimony of the minister of justice on the proposed
amendments that are under her ministerial mandate, although she was
invited to appear."
Independent Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal, the chair of the committee, said
in an interview that he actually spoke to the government's
representative in the Senate, Peter Harder, to see if he could
persuade Wilson-Raybould to appear at the committee — to no avail.
"The members were rather frustrated by that," he said.
Joyal said the recent controversy over Wilson-Raybould's role in the
SNC-Lavalin case puts her refusal to testify in a different
perspective.
"Now, of course, in retrospect ... I can understand that she might not
have been at ease with the overall issue of remediation agreements and
didn't want to submit herself to questions in relation to that."
Wilson-Raybould, who was demoted to the veterans-affairs post in
January, resigned altogether from cabinet on Tuesday. That followed an
anonymously-sourced newspaper article that alleged she was improperly
pressured by the Prime Minister's Office last fall to instruct the
director of public prosecutions to negotiate a remediation agreement
with SNC-Lavalin rather than pursue a criminal prosecution that could
cripple the company.
The Montreal engineering giant has been charged with corruption and
bribery in relation to government contracts in Libya; if found guilty
it would be barred from bidding on government contracts in Canada for
10 years.
She has thus far refused to comment on the allegation, citing
solicitor-client privilege. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied
there was any undue pressure and insists he specifically told
Wilson-Raybould the decision whether to prosecute was hers alone as
attorney general.
The budget bill was not the only time Wilson-Raybould snubbed the
Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee. Throughout last
fall, the committee tried repeatedly to get her to testify on the
government's access-to-information reforms — specifically on a
provision that would require judges to publicly disclose their
expenses, which some senators fear could undermine judicial
independence.
Joyal said Wilson-Raybould "systematically" refused repeated
invitations to testify, even though the committee offered to be
flexible on the timing to accommodate the minister's schedule. The
only response it received was that the minister was unavailable, he
said.
"We're having a great deal of difficulty scheduling the minister's
appearance before our committee," Boisvenu remarked during an Oct. 3
committee meeting. "It's a habit of hers."
Unlike the budget bill, on which the committee was under pressure to
report by a specific deadline, Joyal said he warned Harder that in the
case of the access-to-information bill, the committee would sit on the
legislation until it heard from Wilson-Raybould. "No minister, no
bill."
Indeed, he said the committee was on the point of passing a motion to
that effect when Wilson-Raybould was shuffled out of the justice
portfolio in January. Within two weeks, he said, her successor David
Lametti agreed to testify. He is now scheduled to appear on Thursday.
Wilson-Raybould has appeared before the Senate on other bills, notably
those on medical assistance in dying and legalization of cannabis. But
her selective approach to which bills she chose to defend publicly
raises potential questions about cabinet solidarity.
Joyal, who served as a minister in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau and
John Turner, said disagreements are common around the cabinet table.
But once a consensus decision is made, every minister is required to
stand by it, whether or not he or she personally agrees with it.
In the case of a minister who personally disagrees with a bill that
falls under his or her responsibility, Joyal said: "If the decision of
the government is to proceed with the bill, you have no choice than to
stand by the bill. And if you don't want to stand by the bill, well,
the option is to resign from the portfolio. It's quite clear."