{"id":86,"date":"2006-05-08T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T06:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-05-08T22:47:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T06:47:49","slug":"municipality-cannot-sue-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Municipality Cannot Sue for Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked for a municipality it always amazed me as to what people could get away with saying about the municipality. Well, here&#8217;s the legal basis for that right: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/on\/cas\/onsc\/2006\/2006onsc10892.html\"><em>Halton Hills (Town) v. Kerouac<\/em><\/a>, 2006 CanLII 12970 (ON S.C.). Basicly, the Courts hold that democracy is best served by the citizenry having free reign to criticize the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked for a municipality it always amazed me as to what people could get away with saying about the municipality. Well, here&#8217;s the legal basis for that right: Halton Hills (Town) v. Kerouac, 2006 CanLII 12970 (ON S.C.). Basicly, the Courts hold that democracy is best served by the citizenry having free reign to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}