
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader – or Imam – of approximately 80 thousand Ismaili Muslims in Canada and 20 million across the world, officially opened the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat on Saturday in the presence of his family, the Prime Minister, former Canadian Governor General Adrian Clarkson, and government and Ismaili leaders from across Canada. And the trying time in Canada and for Harper specifically was not lost on the Imam.