Opposition MPs hopeful Liberal-majority committee will give ethics watchdog green light to testify on SNC-Lavalin affair

Opposition MPs are hopeful that Liberals on the House Ethics Committee will agree to have the ethics commissioner testify on his latest report, which found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the Conflict of Interest Act.

Then-ethics commissioner Mary Dawson appears before the House Ethics Committee in January 2018 to discuss her report detailing the prime minister's first ethics violation. Opposition MPs say they hope the new commissioner, Mario Dion, will also be called to testify when the Liberal-majority committee meets on Wednesday.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY PALAK MANGAT

August 20, 2019

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion isn't scheduled to testify at the emergency committee meeting on Wednesday, but opposition MPs are hoping he'll appear before them to divulge more details on the challenges he faced in collecting evidence that could be relevant to his in...

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