Public accounts, transparency, and the Aga Khan Foundation

The Canadian federal government has given $235-million over five years to the Aga Khan Foundation. Let's put the money received in the last fiscal year in perspective.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Aga Khan, pictured on May 17, 2016, in Ottawa. Photograph courtesy of the Prime Minister's Office: Adam Scotti

Opinion

BY EVAN SOTIROPOULOS

January 22, 2018

TORONTO—Some $235,553,238 is a lot of money. It is the amount of money given by the federal government to the Aga Khan Foundation during the last five fiscal years according to transfer payments in the Public Accounts of Canada. Each year—in October more often than not—the public accounts, w...

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