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Maroc Maroc - ARMCHAIRMAYOR.CA - A La Une - 17/Jun 04:50

LETTER – How to have one less distraction at Kamloops City Hall

It seems Coun. Neustaeter’s taxpayer-funded lawyers now plan to use anti-SLAPP legislation to dismiss the mayor’s defamation suit against her. This is insulting to the spirit of the Protection of Public Participation Act and a slap in the face to bona-fide environmental and social activists. Anti-SLAPP legislation was designed to protect those protesting “in the public interest” from corporations with deep pockets who use Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) to scare off, wear down or punish those opposed to pollution or human rights violations. Anti-SLAPP legislation was not designed to protect people who use their position of power to make damaging, unsupported claims about another person. In Coun. Neustaeter’s case, she’s the one with the deep pockets anyway, since Kamloops taxpayers are footing her legal bills. And her comments when she read out the councillors’ March 17 statement were not designed to foster the public good. They were about how the councillors didn’t like the mayor’s standing committees and were upset with the mayor. Where was the public benefit in that? The only reason taxpayers are even on the hook for Coun. Neustaeter’s legal costs is because the councillors invoked a bylaw allowing council to approve an extraordinary expense. They didn’t [...]

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