Ontario Superior Court Judge Edward Morgan allowed Provincial Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager Kory Teneycke to proceed with a defamation lawsuit brought against Charles McVety, Chancellor of Christian College.
The defamation lawsuit sought $3 million in damages.
Respondent McBetty asked for the suit to be dismissed, but the judge refused.
Mr. Tenake, president of Rubicon political strategy firm, argued that in 2021, MacBetty publicly insulted him and his company, making it difficult for the company to operate.
“McBetty publicly claimed that Tenake represented a pharmaceutical company and lobbied the government. He determined that this is why the state changed the core of the vaccine passport,” the judge said in the ruling.
For this reason, it means that Premier Ford has changed the digital passport that Ontarians who have been vaccinated during the corona epidemic will bring. At the time, residents needed a certificate of completion of vaccination to enter sports facilities, restaurants, theaters, and casinos.
“McBetty publicly accused Tenake’s lobbying firm, Rubicon, in speeches, on the Internet and on social media, of representing the interests of pharmaceutical companies and vaccine makers, such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca,” the judge explained.
They also accused Tenake of suggesting that Rubicon, which has clients like the Onju University Association, seemed opposed to Canada Christian College (CCC) being promoted to a university status.
Canadian Christian College is a college-level seminary owned by Mr. McBetty.
The Christian College’s application for promotion was rejected by the Ontario Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board for 2021 on the grounds of insufficient qualifications.
“McBetty not only claimed at the Capitol press conference that Tenake represented a pharmaceutical company and influenced the Conservative Steering Committee (Caucus) and that he received a certain amount (in return), but also claimed that Tenake was expelling Christians from the Conservative Party. I publicly declared that I had a campaign.”
“At the press conference, he announced that Tenake and Rubicon contributed to the failure of the Christian College’s application for promotion.”
“In my opinion, the disgrace suffered by the plaintiffs (Teneke and Rubicon) by McBetty’s public comments is to the detriment of their professional and business reputations. In addition, it has gone too far to the point of implying illegality in the evaluation of quality of education. Therefore, the case must proceed.”
“In the plaintiff’s action, the benefit to society outweighs the public interest in protecting the accused,” the judge sternly declared.
McBetty was an important supporter of Doug Ford in the 2018 Conservative Party presidential election, but after the pandemic and his denial of a degree from a Christian college, the relationship grew somewhat estranged. (Toronto Star Reporter Robert Benji on the 25th = In charge of the Onju Capitol)