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BY ASHLEY KULP
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Months of criticism on social media has led Mississippi Mills Mayor Shaun McLaughlin and Coun. John Edwards to file a lawsuit against Carleton Place resident Steve Maynard for libel. The claim was logged July 14 with the Ontario Superior Court in Perth by McLaughlin and Edwards’ lawyer Jonathan Collings of Ottawa-based firm Low Murchison Radnoff LLP. In it, the mayor and councillor are seeking up to $250,000 in damages ($150,000 as general and special damages for libel and $50,000 each for aggravated and punitive damages), as well as the immediate removal of the offending posts and prevention from publishing “further defamatory material.” The document claims Maynard, an Almonte native who currently lives in Carleton Place, has “defamed the mayor and the councillor multiple times” with posts on his personal Facebook page described as “malicious, oppressive and high-handed.”
Examples with images are included in the statement of claim, such as a June 5 post featuring a headshot of Edwards next to a computer-generated image of Edwards in clown makeup, accompanied by the text: “Who said it? Councillor or Clown?” Another from May 13, shows three OPP officers holding down resident Mario Coculuzzi whose heated remarks during the council meeting prompted his removal by the OPP officers. “Normal people are appalled at a citizen being denied free speech at a public council meeting and being treated like this at the request of Mississippi Mills mayor Shaun McLaughlin,” Maynard wrote above the photo. And in a May 22 post bearing a headshot of McLaughlin, Maynard charged that McLaughlin “incites residents during a council meeting and then calls police,” is belligerent towards residents and claims he has broken laws by violating the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities See LAWSUIT page A/CP5
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