High-Ranking OPP Officer Threatens To Sue Ford For Defamation

Ford threatened with a defamation lawsuit over OPP hiring debacle

Brad Blair, High-Ranking OPP Officer, Threatens To Sue Doug Ford For Defamation Lawyers for the deputy commissioner say the premier tried to intimidate him. Canadian Press CANADIAN PRESS Ontario Premier Doug Ford is photographed during a session of the legislature on Sept. 17, 2018.

One of Ontario's highest-ranking police officers is threatening to sue Premier Doug Ford accusing him of defamation. In a notice of intent to sue filed last month, lawyers for Ontario Provincial Police Deputy Commissioner Brad Blair allege that Ford damaged the officer's reputation when he accused him of breaking the Police Services Act by speaking out against the hiring of a Ford family friend for the force's top job.

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