Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is off to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation with his family.
The Prime Minister’s Office said 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 trips – and the family’s flights on the last trip to and from Costa Rica cost the government about $57,000, with no thousands more spent on the stay of crews in San Jose.
The PMO also says it has consulted with the federal ethics commissioner’s office about the upcoming holiday.
In 2017, Trudeau was found to have violated conflict of interest rules related to a 2016 vacation he took to the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.
The PMO says Trudeau will receive regular briefings while he is away.
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