Carin Bondar ran against Barry Neufeld in the 2022 school board election, but during the campaign period Neufeld appeared on a talk show and made defamatory comments against her, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled. A Chilliwack, B.C., school board trustee says she's relieved to have won her defamation case against former trustee Barry Neufeld after he called her a "striptease artist."
Supreme Court Justice Michael Stephens found that the newsletter included screenshots of Bondar with quotes from the videos she was featured in. Among them was a screenshot of Bondar, nude on the wrecking ball, along with a caption reading, "I am NOT a strip tease artist!" "It just felt so ridiculous that someone could completely mispurpose my work and create a new identity for me," she said. "It just seems so awful, it seems so wrong."The former trustee made the argument that he had "qualified privilege" in making the comments — a defence that asserts that he had a legal or moral interest or duty to express his views, and the community had an interest in receiving that information.
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