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Former Minister Sues Broadcaster over Online Gaming Program
 April 18, 2007, 10:16 pm (4 years ago)Doug Lewis, had a distinguished political career based on the fact that he actually served as the Minister of Justice in the year of nineteen eighty eight, he was later the Minister of Transport in the year of nineteen ninety, and then one year later in the year of nineteen ninety one he was the Solicitor General of Canada. Doug Lewis returned to his private life and then in the year of two thousand and one he was actually chairman and also shareholder of the Oxford Software Developers Inc.
Government Minister, Doug Lewis, who alleges that his actual reputation was in fact ruined by a negative type of program that was aired in the year of two thousand and one, is now currently suing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for libel.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is known for licensing the off shore Internet gambling sites such as the Tropical Casino internet gambling site, and actually became the subject of a program by the broadcaster in which Lewis was actually interviewed and the claimed that the offshore website would block Canadians from gambling.
Doug Lewis, a former minister now claims that the CBC staff, which includes the news anchor Peter Mansbridge and also the reporter Sasa Petricic, has actually ruined his reputation in the subsequent broadcast about the “evils of internet gambling in Canada.”
On June 27th, 2001, the report was aired on Canada Now and The National, the report claimed that while the internet gambling is illegal in Canada, at least one website known as the offshore Tropical Casino licensed by Lewis’ company, actually allowed Canadians to log on and make bets with a credit card.
The broadcaster’s lawyer Jonathan Lisus, defending the program, said Monday “this broadcast was about that paradox. It’s a big problem in society and Canadians had a right to know.”
In the program that CBC reporter Petricic claimed that he was able to log on to the Tropical Casino website, place a bet on the Toronto Blue Jays with his own credit card, and received his winnings of twenty dollars which was sent to the CBC Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa a week later.
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