(Peter Kent – Conservative)

 

by Cosmin Dzsurdzsa,

THE POST MILLENNIUM

August 21, 2019

The Liberal-dominated Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics has voted against inviting Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion to testify on his groundbreaking SNC-Lavalin report.

The motion was defeated 5-4 by the Liberal majority, however, one Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith voted against the rest of his party.

Liberal MPs (except for Nathaniel Erskine-Smith) on the Ethics Committee just voted to refuse Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion the ability to testify on his damning SNC-Lavalin report.

“That given the unprecedented nature of the Trudeau two report the committee invite the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to brief the committee on his report and that the committee invites further witnesses as required based on the testimony of the commissioner,” said Kent on the motion.

Other MPs from several parties including Green Party Leader Elizabeth May spoke to call for the testimony to go forward.

“I thought I knew what transpired on the SNC-Lavalin mess based on the testimony of our former justice minis and former Attorney General, her chronology, her notes, I thought covered everything that occurred and I believed her in every syllable. But Mr. Dion’s report has shaken me far more than our former Attorney General’s testimony,” said Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

“This is really scandalous, the prime minister is guilty here of the kind of offense in which resignation is appropriate.”

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