Chilliwack school trustee Carin Bondar said she was “relieved and vindicated” after winning her defamation suit against ex-trustee Barry Neufeld.
It was Neufeld’s characterization of Bondar on an internet talk show as “that striptease artist” during the 2022 school board election campaign that was deemed defamatory by Justice K. Michael Stephens, in his reasons for judgment released April 11.
The judge ordered Neufeld to pay Bondar general damages of $35,000 and punitive damages of $10,000, adding that “no defences were made out.