OTTAWA—In the wake of the explosive finding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke Canada’s conflict of interest law during the SNC-Lavalin affair, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is renewing his call for a police investigation and urging Canadians to reject the Liberals in the upcoming federal election.

Speaking to reporters in Regina on Wednesday, Scheer said there is now more than enough evidence for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate whether Trudeau’s actions also amount to criminal conduct.

“Justin Trudeau is using his office to help a very select group of his very rich and powerful friends,” Scheer charged, describing the findings in the ethics commissioner’s report as “unforgivable.”

Published Wednesday, the 58-page report by ethics commissioner Mario Dion concludes Trudeau broke the law by overseeing an effort by his office to convince then-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to overrule public prosecutors and offer SNC-Lavalin a deal to get out of a criminal trial.

The Montreal-based engineering giant was charged in 2015 with bribery and fraud to secure contracts in Libya between 2001 and 2011, when the dictator Moammar Gadhafi was in power.

Dion’s report details how, after the Liberals took power in 2015, SNC-Lavalin started lobbying Trudeau and key ministers for Canada to change the law so that company’s facing criminal charges can receive remediation deals — also called deferred prosecution agreements. Under these deals, trials are stopped and accused companies agree to reforms and pay fines instead of being convicted.

Dion’s report details how, against the backdrop of SNC-Lavalin lobbying, the Liberal government changed the law to create this legal option in a 2018 omnibus budget bill. In September 2018, Canada’s public prosecution service decided not to offer such a deal to SNC-Lavalin, and Dion’s report details how Trudeau and his staff began pressing Wilson-Raybould on whether she would overrule prosecutors to give the company the remediation deal that it wanted.

Months later, federal politics was gripped with controversy after the Globe and Mail revealed Wilson-Raybould felt Trudeau and his office inappropriately pressured her to interfere in the criminal prosecution.

At the time, Scheer called for Trudeau to resign and wrote to the RCMP to request a criminal investigation into the allegations of political interference in a criminal prosecution.

On Wednesday, Scheer said Trudeau clearly did not heed his call to step down, and that with an election just two months away, it is now up to Canadians to reject a government led by a prime minister he charged can no longer be trusted.

Scheer underscored how Dion’s report marks the second time Trudeau has been found to have broken Canada’s conflict of interest law. In 2017, then-ethics commissioner Mary Dawson concluded Trudeau breached the law by accepting gifts from the Aga Khan, a wealthy religious leader whose foundation lobbies the government and receives federal funding.

“Trudeau may never face a court of law over this scandal, but he will have to face the Canadian people over the next few weeks,” Scheer said.

“I do believe that Canadians care when they see people in powerful offices abusing that power.”

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