Two city councillors want to renew a call on the province to launch a public inquiry into Winnipeg construction projects, procurement processes and real estate transactions.

Couns. Russ Wyatt (Transcona) and Ross Eadie (Mynarski) want their council colleagues to join them in asking the provincial government to launch an inquiry looking into the Winnipeg police headquarters, major real estate transactions flagged in a 2014 city-commissioned audit and other construction projects, including the expansion of the downtown RBC Convention Centre.

They also want an inquiry to examine rules governing conflict of interest and the disclosure of assets for elected officials and senior public servants, as well as business transactions between them.

Such an inquiry is “critical to the public interest” in order to uncover facts that “are not attainable using existing powers available to the city,” the councillors say in a notice of motion published on Friday.

In the notice, Wyatt and Eadie envision an inquiry that would not draw any conclusions about civil or criminal liability.

“An inquiry means that people can come forward and not be subject to civil action,” Eadie said Friday in an interview.

Wyatt declined an interview request.

Their motion arrives as the city is poised to approve a $21.5-million settlement with most of the defendants in its lawsuits over fraud and deficiencies related to the construction of Winnipeg’s downtown police headquarters.

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