'Striptease artist': Former school trustee reacts to guilty ruling in defamation case
Barry Neufeld, a former Chilliwack, B.C. school trustee, was ordered to pay his former colleague, trustee Carin Bondar, $45,000 for labelling her a 'striptease artist.' His lawyer says the ruling will have a 'chilling effect' on free speech in the public s...
Canada has insane laws about this. Mark Stein had to move to the US because of this. Anyone that files a defamation case gets a free government lawyer. It is basically guaranteed that you will win $40,000 for even the tiniest slight.
This kind of law would be great if it applied to communists when they go into the -ist and -phobe accusation loops, but you know it doesn't.