2012 Defamation Suit
In 2012, a B.C. Supreme Court judge and jury heard a defamation lawsuit lodged against Vander Zalm by retired conflict-of-interest commissioner Ted Hughes. The former judge and recipient of the Order of Canada alleged that he was defamed in Vander Zalm's 2008 self-published autobiography For The People. The book suggested that Hughes, then in an interim appointment, may have conducted an unfair inquiry of Vander Zalm in 1991 due to the prospect of achieving a permanent employment.
Vander Zalm defended the statements about Hughes, saying they were fair comments, not facts, and that they were made as a matter of public interest.
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