Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives ask why Justin Trudeau was allowed to accept $80,000 ‘gift’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest vacation trip to Jamaica may have been cleared by the ethics commissioner, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s party is now asking why. In a lengthy letter to interim commissioner Konrad Von Finckenstein, Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett raises a question in the wake of reporting that Trudeau’s family went to the same luxury resort as they did last year, with a free stay at a high-end villa belonging to a friend: how is the prime minister able to accept such an expensive gift? × Already a Subscriber? Sign in You are logged in Switch accounts The value of the family’s nine-nights at Prospect Estate was estimated by the National Post as more than…