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OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he will still give back some or all of the $20,000 he was paid by a New Brunswick-based charity last year even though at least one of its board members has ties to the federal Conservatives.

The promise was made as several other organizations that contracted Trudeau to speak for them indicated they were happy with the results, and would not be taking the Liberal leader up on his offer to “do right” by them.

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Trudeau has faced Conservative criticism for more than a week for accepting speaker’s fees from charitable organizations even after being elected to Parliament in 2008.

Those attacks increased after the Prime Minister’s Office circulated a letter Friday in which the Grace Foundation seniors’ group in Saint John, N.B., asked for their money back.

Trudeau had spoken at an event organized by the foundation on June 27, 2012, which the letter described as “a huge disappointment and financial loss for our organization.”