Michael Chan and Superior Court

personal attacks: I said I would pursue all legal remedies to restore my good name and mitigate the damage caused to my reputation by the Globe deeply offensive personal attacks, Chan said in statement Friday, according to The Chronicle Herald. I regret that I have been compelled to turn to the courts, but I cannot and will not let these unfounded attacks and allegations go unanswered. The statement of claim by Michael Chan makes good on a libel notice he sent the paper last month after it refused to retract its stories or apologize. In the unproven claim filed with Superior Court this week, the minister for citizenship, immigration and international trade says the backdrop to the articles is five years old, when the then-director of Canada spy service said, without naming names, that some Canadian politicians were under the influence of a foreign government. The Globe and Mail would sensationally claim it had ’revelations’ as a result of an ‘investigation’ that CSIS had taken the ‘extraordinary’ step of having ‘warned’ or ‘formally cautioned’ the Ontario government that Michael Chan ‘could be a threat’ to national security and/or national interests, the legal claim asserts. The story appeared to go away after the B.C. and Ontario governments said they had no concerns — until the Globe published its front-page story in mid-June. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.