An Alberta Court of King’s Bench Justice has ordered the Alberta NDP to provide Caylan Ford the name of the person within the Alberta NDP who defamed her in an NDP media release by falsely calling her a white supremacist.
Unlike other defamation cases, where the author and publisher are readily identifiable, there was no indication as to who authored, approved, or otherwise directed the publications in question other than “Alberta’s NDP”, and “Rachel Notley” (which name appears on the press releases).
Named in the lawsuit are Karim A. Jivraj from the far-left publication Press Progress, the federal NDP, Progress Alberta Communications Limited, Rakhi Pancholi, Duncan Kinney, Avnish Nanda, Luke Lebrun, Stephen Magusiak, Jeremy Nolais, David Khan, the CBC, Toronto Star Newspaper, and Emma Mcintosh.
Ford was a UCP candidate in 2019 and her political career was destroyed after a friend who turned against her leaked far-left publication Press Progress (Karim A. Jivraj) private messages she sent and falsely painted her as a white supremacist.
Comments were then made against Ford in a press release on the albertndp.ca website and on an “Alberta’s NDP” twitterfeed.
According to court documents, the Alberta NDP had refused to provide Ford the name of the person within the Alberta NDP that should be sued for damages.
The Federal NDP’s application to strike the claim against it or for summary judgment was dismissed. Lawyers for the Federal NDP had argued that they weren’t liable for the defamatory statements of the Alberta NDP.
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