Borden Ladner Gervais – actions like this is why the Protection of Public Participation Act was created.

This is not from some Mickey Mouse law firm, this is a big Canadian law firm with hundreds of lawyers. Read how the Honourable Justice Morley described, in the Reasons for Judgment, what Borden Ladner Gervais submitted in a pleading.

When you read this letter, you can see why the Justice chose to record those words in a Judgment. Everything is over-the-top-rhetoric to clobber you right off the bat. It appears that Borden Ladner Gervais MO.

It’s worth your time to read this letter and imagine how you’d feel upon its receipt. There’s no denying what the goal was.

Do they expect anyone to believe their lawyers were unaware of the PPPA from 2019 when they sent this out in 2022? That’s the problem – there are still characters and firms like Borden Ladner Gervais who are well aware of the PPPA and yet, still employ the slimy tactics of SLAPP suits because it works. It’s all based on fear.

I doubt Borden Ladner Gervais will be framing this one:

Characterizing it as “malicious”, “wrongful”, “high-handed” and “deserving of rebuke” is not just over-the-top-rhetoric, but troubling in itself in a pleading.

Apr. 8/24. Page 38 Reasons for Judgment by the Honourable Justice Morley – Deep Water Recovery

What a black eye for a large law firm – for the Honourable Justice Morley to select “troubling” to describe, and record it in a Judgment, the submissions made by BLG to the courts. I hope they are embarrassed for being called out now and for all the embarrassments to come.