Will Monitor Election Slander

Election Commissioner Yves Côté says he could prosecute media for breach of federal law in a case similar to the National Post’s defamation of an Alberta Conservative candidate. The newspaper paid $650,000 for publishing a mid-campaign commentary by then-columnist Don Martin, now host of CTV News Channel’s Power Play program: “A charge could be laid.”

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