The Aga Khan and Canada: a decades-long, multi-partisan friendship

‘It is unfortunate that many Canadians who are not familiar with the Aga Khan may hear his name for the first time in the context of this scandal with the prime minister,’ says Tory MP Garnett Genuis.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper and the Aga Khan at the opening of the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat on Sussex Drive in Ottawa in 2008. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHELSEA NASH

January 25, 2017

With the recent hubbub about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Christmas vacations to the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, the spiritual leader for the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muslims has been a topic of discussion in Canada.

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