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OTTAWA – Conservative MP Andrew Scheer filed a formal complaint Monday with Parliament’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner alleging that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated federal law when he and his family accepted a vacation from the Aga Khan at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.

It is the latest incident in which Trudeau’s political opponents are arguing that he is failing to uphold his very own edict on “Open and Accountable Government”, delivered to his cabinet and parliamentary secretarys as they were sworn in in late 2015, in which he exhorted them to “arrange their private affairs in a manner that will bear the closest public scrutiny.”

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“By accepting the gift, I would argue … that’s a violation of the (Conflict of Interest) Act,” Scheer said in a telephone interview from his home in Regina.

The PMO maintains that the Aga Khan is a close friend of the Trudeau family — His Highness was a pallbearer at Pierre Trudeau’s funeral — a suggestion that that personal relationship supercedes the professional relationship betwee the two men. The Conflict of Interest Act allows public office holders to receive gifts from friends and relatives.