Trudeau flying in and out of Bermuda Wednesday to deliver eulogy for Peter Green
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying in and out of Bermuda on Wednesday, where he will deliver a eulogy at the funeral for Peter Green, a close family friend.
Trudeaus have been friends with the Green family since the 1970s. Pierre Trudeau was godfather to Peter Green's son Alexander, who delivered a reading at Trudeau's funeral in Montréal.
Pierre Trudeau also spoke at the funeral of Peter Green's wife in Edmonton in 1990, following her death from cancer at the age of 38.
This past Christmas, Trudeau and his family stayed at the Prospect Estate resort near Ocho Rios in Jamaica that was owned by Green.
The Prospect Estate is legendary among some of the wealthiest and most powerful families around the world. Over the decades, dignitaries like Winston Churchill, Henry Kissinger and Prince Phillip have stayed there, sometimes planting a tree in memory of their visit.
Pierre Trudeau stayed at the Prospect Estate for the first time in 1975 during an official stay in Jamaica.
The PMO initially said Justin Trudeau paid for his family's accommodations during the Christmas trip in 2023, a stay that some have estimated to be worth as much as $84,000. His office later said the family stayed for free at Green's resort.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) told Radio-Canada that the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner was consulted before the Jamaica trip to ensure all rules were respected and was given the green light.
Ethics commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein told a parliamentary committee that the rules that governing gifts and travel MPs can accept include exceptions for gifts and travel offered by friends or family.
"What we have here is clearly a generous gift between people who are friends and I don't see why, just because they are well-off, they can't exchange gifts," von Finckenstein said of the trip.
While the accommodations for the trip were a gift, the prime minister's 10-day family vacation to the island still cost taxpayers $230,442.
According to documents tabled in the House, the largest single expense for the Jamaica trip was $162,051 for the RCMP officers who accompanied the Trudeau family.
The trip was particularly costly because the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) plane that brought the family to Jamaica had mechanical problems, forcing the CAF to send a second plane with a crew to fix it.
The documents tabled in the House report that the second plane accounted for $20,835 of the $57,553 the trip cost the armed forces.
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