Connie Fournier

Connie Fournier is a political activist on civil liberties issues, living in Kingston, Ontario. In 2015, she publish a book entitled "Betrayed: Stephen Harper's war on principled conservatism" in which she argued that principled conservatives must work to unseat then Prime Minister Stephen Harper because of his government's Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 (also known as Bill C-51).^[1][2][3]

Fournier was awarded the 2015 Civil Liberties Award of the Ontario Civil Liberties Association.^[4] Fournier was an organizer in the successful battle to repeal Section 13 hate speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act, and then moved to oppose Bill C-51.^[5]

Fournier is a co-founder of the Canadian conservative internet forum Free Dominion. In that capacity, there have been several defamation lawsuits against her for providing the forum on which the impugned comments were made. She won the lawsuit made by plaintiff John Baglow, first in summary judgement, then at trial following an appeal of the summary judgement,^[6] and this established that internet forum operators are liable for defamation in Ontario.^[7] Fournier lost a lawsuit against plaintiff Richard Warman, and also lost the appeal.^[8][9]

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