Scheer: Trudeau should resign over SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Justin Trudeau has lost the moral authority to govern and is calling on the prime minister to resign.
Scheer spoke immediately after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified to the House of Commons justice committee on pressure she felt from Trudeau and others to head off a criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.
Wilson-Raybould testified that she withstood four months of attempts to get her to reverse a decision not to make a plea-bargain-type deal with the company.
“The conversations that I had, where they became very clearly inappropriate, was when political issues came up, like the election in Quebec, like losing the election if SNC were to move their headquarters,” Wilson-Raybould said during her testimony.
Scheer says the Mounties need to open a criminal investigation into what the Liberal government did to help, which faces criminal charges related to allegedly corrupt dealings in Libya.
He says that given what Wilson-Raybould laid out in her testimony, Trudeau can no longer lead the nation.
Scheer says the Liberal cabinet must find a way forward to govern the country without Trudeau, who allowed partisan, political motivations to overrule his duty to uphold the rule of law.
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