Gwern Branwen wrote:
That's probably true for you and me, but it
may not be where White Cat is
(with the caveat that I'm assuming White Cat was formerly known as Cool Cat
and I don't remember Cool Cat ever mentioning where he lived). From
[[Libel]], one can read:
"In many, though not all, legal systems,
statements presented as fact must be
false to be defamatory....In some systems, however, notably the Philippines and
the Canadian province of Quebec, truth alone is not a defense.[3] It is also
necessary in these cases to show that there is a well-founded public interest in
the specific information being widely known, and this may be the case even for
public figures."
Your claim about Quebec is wrong. Criminal libel in Canada is a federal
matter.
That would, of course, be Wikipedia's claim... or was until you fixed the
paragraph. There are a couple of comments still in the [[slander and
libel]] article about Quebec being different from the rest of Canada in this
regard; could someone a little more knowledgable than me please take a look?