Toronto Star | Story & Video: Canadian PM and Aga Khan open Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum

PM and Aga Khan open Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum
A preview of the new Aga Khan Museum, hosted by the museum’s director Henry Kim.

By Murray Whyte for The Star

Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped out of his limousine at the Ismaili Centre in Don Mills Friday afternoon and allowed himself a rare moment of unbuttoned candour.

“It’s a good day,” he said, smoothing his jacket as he greeted the Prince Karim Al Husseini Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of 15 million Ismaili Muslims worldwide and a force for benevolent change across the globe, with a familiarity reserved for an old friend.

The occasion for their meeting, the ceremonial opening of the Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum, two remarkable new buildings that occupy nearly seven hectares alongside the Don Valley Parkway here, was very official. But the two men have been recently getting to know each other better and better.

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