CANADA
Straight
by Carlito Pablo on June 18th, 2015
Sparks flew on the fourth day of the trial of a defamation suit against former Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong.
“How did you expect him to react?” Furlong’s lawyer, John Hunter, asked Laura Robinson, who wrote an in-depth article about the prominent figure’s untold early years in Canada and alleged abuses he committed against First Nations students at an elementary school.
“You expected him to send you flowers?” Hunter said, pressing on with his cross-examination today (June 18) of Robinson, who sued Furlong for allegedly impugning her integrity as a journalist following publication of her article in the Georgia Straight in 2012.
“I expected him not to lie,” Robinson responded.
Hunter reminded her that she had been told by Furlong’s camp that if her article was printed, she would be sued.
Following the publication of her story in the Straight on September 27, 2012, Furlong did sue Robinson and the newspaper. He eventually discontinued the lawsuits.
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