Months after Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller accused an Enterprise Canada employee of carrying a Nazi flag at the Ottawa trucker protest, the company announced it has resolved its defamation suit against Miller over the comments.
During the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC)—which was tasked with determining the validity of the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy—Miller had claimed that Enterprise Canada executive Brian Fox had carried a Nazi flag on the first days of the protest in order to discredit the convoy.
Last December, the strategic communications firm and Fox filed a statement of claim against Miller for what it described as defamatory statements. On March 31, Enterprise announced in a statement that the litigation had been resolved, saying, “the parties have agreed to accept the ruling of Commissioner Rouleau as conclusive and final and put the issue behind them.”…