Ezra Levant in court Oct. 15 over calling Canadian Islamic Rights activist a liar

...Mr. Levant’s posts were critical of Khurrum Awan, a member of the CIC who spoke at the Canadian Human Rights Commission hearings and served as its youth president. In his statement of claim filed to Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Mr. Awan said Mr. Levant suggested he was “a liar, a perjurer, an anti-Semite, a con artist, unfit to be a lawyer and has acted in a conflict of interest.”

“The plaintiff has suffered mental distress, humiliation and loss of reputation,” reads the statement of claim filed by lawyer Brian Shiller of Ruby Shiller Chan Hasan Barristers. “The plaintiff has been shunned by former friends, ridiculed in various publications and is the subject of odium and contempt.”

In his statement of defence, Mr. Levant suggests any damage to Mr. Awan’s reputation was self-inflicted.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. Neither side would comment on the case, except to confirm the court date.

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