Chilliwack school trustee Carin Bondar wins defamation suit over Barry Neufeld’s talk show comment
Chilliwack school trustee Carin Bondar said she was “relieved and vindicated” after winning her defamation suit against ex-trustee Barry Neufeld.
The judge’s reasons contend Mr. Neufeld was “inaccurately equating, or substantially equating, a fleeting image” of Bondar being shown naked from behind in her science-focused video with that of a ‘striptease artist.’” The judge pointed out the comment did not “give the factual context for her performance: she was clothed for the vast majority of it; the topic of the spoken words was science-themed; and she did not remove her clothing.Neufeld acted with “reckless indifference as to the truth” with the comment, the judge wrote, however he noted Neufeld testified that he “did honestly believe Dr. Bondar was” a striptease artist, and for that reason he denied aggravated damages.
Neufeld had stated in court it was his “honestly held belief – a person who makes a video first scantily clad, then totally nude, except for rubber gum boots, in my mind, that was a striptease artist.
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