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Even the central American rainforest proved no sanctuary from controversy surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest vacation.

Publicly announced by the PMO last month, Trudeau and his family embarked Dec. 20 for their Christmas vacation in Costa Rica — via a Canadian Forces Challenger 604 business jet. They’ve since returned home.

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Questions soon arose after publicly-available data showed four subsequent flights by two separate RCAF Challengers between Ottawa and Costa Rica during their vacation.

Trudeau’s plane — registration number 144618, operating under the callsign CANFORCE ONE — departed Ottawa Dec. 20 at 9 a.m. for Juan Santamaría International Airport, just outside of the Costa Rican capital of San Jose.

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That was followed two days later by a second RCAF Challenger — registration number 144614 — leaving Ottawa Dec. 22 as CANFORCE 3772, landing in San Jose several hours later.

The same day, the first plane departed San Jose at 4 p.m. and landed in Ottawa at 10 p.m. — also operating as CANFORCE 3772.

At 8:15 a.m. on Dec. 29, the first jet again left Ottawa as CANFORCE 3770, while the other departed San Jose hours later as CANFORCE 3771, landing in Ottawa at midnight.

The PM returned to Ottawa aboard the first jet Saturday evening.