Chilliwack school board candidate Carin Bondar says she is suing fellow candidate Barry Neufeld after he called her 91裸聊视频渁 striptease artist.91裸聊视频�

Neufeld appeared on the Sept. 21 Action4Canada Empower Hour, an online Zoom meeting that is open to anyone. He talked about the six trustee candidates he91裸聊视频檚 running alongside, including ParentsVoice BC candidate Richard Procee.

91裸聊视频淩ichard Procee ran against that striptease artist in the by-election four years ago,91裸聊视频� Neufeld said. 91裸聊视频淲e thought he was going to win but something funny happened with the mail-in ballots. In the walk-in polls he won, but when they counted the mail-in ballots, suddenly this extremely left wing person got in.91裸聊视频�

Bondar addressed the striptease comment in a news release sent out Oct. 11.

91裸聊视频淐reating lies about one91裸聊视频檚 political opponents and using them to gain power in an election are both categorically illegal,91裸聊视频� she said. 91裸聊视频淏arry Neufeld has done both, and I find myself in a position with only one possible move to make.91裸聊视频�

Neufeld91裸聊视频檚 striptease comment stems from an educational video Bondar made in 2014 in her role as a UFV instructor.

The video was titled 91裸聊视频極rganisms do Evolve,91裸聊视频� and it was about natural selection. A parody of a song by Miley Cyrus, Bondar sits on a wrecking ball as it swings back and forth, dressed in a white tank top, underwear and boots.

In the Cyrus version, Miley licks a sledgehammer. Bondar licks a microscope, and at one point she is nude except for her boots.

During the 2021 by-election, held to fill a vacancy after former trustee Dan Coulter was elected to the BC legislature, Bondar91裸聊视频檚 opponents zeroed in that video.

The video is still online. Bondar has never denied it was provocative and she has always defended it as a 91裸聊视频渃heeky way91裸聊视频� to talk about evolution.

91裸聊视频淚 am not a strip-tease artist, nor have I ever been one,91裸聊视频� Bondar said. 91裸聊视频淚 am currently a full-time instructor in the Biology Department and the School of Land Use and Environmental Change at the University of the Fraser Valley.91裸聊视频�

Bondar91裸聊视频檚 lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Neufeld dated Oct. 4, suggesting Neufeld91裸聊视频檚 comment was a deliberate attempt to damage Bondar91裸聊视频檚 reputation and hurt her chances in the Oct. 15 municipal election.

91裸聊视频淲e have advised our client that the courts would have no difficulty in concluding that your unfounded and false statement was made with malice in an attempt to injure Ms. Bondar and that your statement constitutes the tort of defamation.91裸聊视频�

The letter demanded an 91裸聊视频渋mmediate, unreserved, and full public apology91裸聊视频� and retraction.

91裸聊视频淎nd that these be circulated, at minimum, across the same media and platforms that circulated your defamatory statement.91裸聊视频�

Bondar said there was no response from Neufeld, and she is going ahead with a defamation suit.

91裸聊视频淲omen in politics have rights,91裸聊视频� she said. 91裸聊视频淲e cannot sit idly by while our political opponents make up lies to misguide voters.91裸聊视频�

Neufeld did not respond to a request for comment before this story was published.

eric.welsh@theprogress.com
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