TORONTO — Ontario’s premier took another step toward a defamation lawsuit against the province’s Opposition leader Friday after he refused to retract comments suggesting she is personally on trial. Kathleen Wynne’s lawyer demanded in a letter last month that Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown withdraw comments he made a day before the premier testified as a witness at a trial in Sudbury, Ont., involving two provincial Liberals facing Election Act bribery charges. Wynne’s lawyers followed up Friday with another letter to Brown saying it constitutes a notice of libel. Brown’s comments about the premier being debased and humiliated are another defamation, her lawyers wrote. “Make no mistake, it is political corruption that’s on trial,” Brown wrote.

Source: National Post October 20, 2017 17:25 UTC