Politics This Morning: Opposition parties call for emergency committee meeting

Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, chair of the House Ethics Committee, announced on Thursday that he's convening an emergency meeting next Wednesday to hear from the ethics commissioner about his latest report, which found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke federal ethics rules in the SNC-Lavalin case. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY BEATRICE PAEZ
August 16, 2019
Happy Friday, Ethics commissioner Mario Dion has been called to testify about his report before the House Ethics Committee next Wednesday. The request from opposition parties comes a day after the commission released his report on Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

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