Canadian Prime Minister Faces Ethics Questions Over Charity Contract

OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing ethics questions about his government’s decision to grant a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a charity whose events his family members have been paid to speak at.

WE Charity said this week that Mr. Trudeau’s mother and brother were paid a total of about 282,000 Canadian dollars ($207,000) for dozens of speaking engagements at the charity’s events in the years since Mr. Trudeau became prime minister in November 2015. Most of the payments were made by ME…