By Canadian Press

Scheer calls on Trudeau to resign over SNC-Lavalin affair

Feb 27, 2019 | 7:24 PM

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.

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.

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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.

The Canadian Press