Posted AT 7:41 PM EDT on 21/04/06
MP ordered to pay $220,000 for racist comments
Montreal — Independent MP Andre Arthur, no stranger to controversy in his long radio career, and a former employer have been ordered to pay $220,000 plus costs for comments judged to have insulted Arab and Haitian cabbies.
Justice Jean Guilbault of Quebec Superior Court said remarks by Mr. Arthur in November 1998 when he was working for now-defunct radio station CKVL were racist and defamatory.
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