OTTAWA—The Canadian parliament’s ethics commissioner has started a formal probe into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and whether he violated the country’s conflict-of-interest laws when he stayed at a private island in the Bahamas over the Christmas holidays. Canada’s Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Mary Dawson, revealed the investigation in a letter sent last week to a Conservative Party lawmaker. The Wall...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2017 18:14 UTC