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OTTAWA, Aug. 15-- Canadian opposition Conservative Party called for an emergency meeting of the Canadian House of Commons Ethics Committee on Thursday to introduce a motion to get Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion to appear for his report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's violation of the Conflict of Interest Act in SNC-Lavalin corruption scandal. Dion's report, released Wednesday, found that Trudeau violated the act by attempting to interfere in the corruption case against the Quebec engineering giant. "The authority of the Prime Minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions as well as the authority of Ms. Wilson Raybould as the Crown's chief law officer," according to a letter by Conservative MPs Peter Kent and Jacques Gourde to MP Bob Zimmer who is the chair of that committee and has the authority to call committee meetings. They asked Zimmer to invite Dion to testify on what they described as the "grave situation" outlined in his report on the SNC-Lavalin scandal. "Not only is Mr. Trudeau the first prime minister to have been found guilty of breaking the law, he is a repeat offender," said the letter, adding that "Canadians deserve fulsome answers to the many remaining questions." Meanwhile, New Democratic Party MP Charlie Angus said on Twitter that he has also sent a letter calling for the emergency meeting. | 
