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Barrick Gold has sued Écosociété Publishers and their authors for $6 million in moral and exemplary damages over the publication of the book: Noir Canada. Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique.

This Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) represents a serious threat to the right to information and the freedom of expression.

The authors and their publisher think they have the right to express analytical points of view about our society, and remain confident about the integrity of the approach and the credibility of the sources collected in the book. As freedom of expression, the most elementary right defended by democracies, is endangered with growing SLAPPs, I ask the Quebec Government and the Justice Minister, Jacques Dupuis, to put forward and quickly adopt a law at the National Assembly to protect individuals and organizations of the civil society against SLAPP suits, including the pending one.

According to circumstances, I ask for similar legislation to be passed in other Canadian provinces and territories.