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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s longtime family friendship with the Aga Khan may have begun with his mother during an infamous trip to New York that caused an uproar at home 40 years ago.

The Aga Khan’s half-sister, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, is a jet-setting philanthropist who, in 1977, featured prominently in the political mini-drama involving the Trudeaus, a New York City apartment, a Russian ballet dancer and an iconic photograph of a princess and a prime minister’s wife, strolling arm-in-arm along Madison Avenue.

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Justin Trudeau’s family getaway by private helicopter to the Aga Khan’s 349-acre private island in the Bahamas over the Christmas holidays is now under investigation by Mary Dawson, the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner. The billionaire religious leader’s foundation has received hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian foreign aid money and is a registered lobbyist with the government.