It decided to withdraw amid the growing controversy, it said, adding that it would waive all costs associated with setting up the program and plans to return all funds earmarked for it. Trudeau's spokesperson wasn't immediately available for comment. The prime minister has already been reprimanded twice by the country's ethics watchdog: for a secret vacation in 2016 at the private island of the Aga Khan, a spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, and for breaking conflict of interest laws by pressuring his former attorney general to help SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. settle corruption charges out of court. Conservative politician Michael Barrett said that Trudeau's ties to the charity and his wife's involvement with the organization has contravened his obligations under the Conflict of Interest Act. "I have considered your request and am of the view that it satisfies the requirements set out in subsection 22(2) of the act," Mario Dion, commissioner of the watchdog, said in a statement.