Liberals Block Hearings Into Scathing Ethics Report on SNC-Lavalin Affair

Mario Dion waits to appear before the Commons estimates committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, December 13, 2011. Ethics commissioner Dion says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contravened a section of the Conflict of Interest Act during the so-called SNC-Lavalin affair. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—Liberal members of a parliamentary committee have blocked an opposition attempt to hear from ethics commissioner Mario Dion about his scathing report into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Only one of six Liberal MPs on the 10-member House of Commons ethics committee supported a Conservative motion to call Dion, and possibly others, to testify about the report.