[bgc]

Maybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against US persons if the country in which the judgement was won has looser libel standards than the US.[0]

(IANAL)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

[buildbot]

Yeah no idea if that would apply or not. But Canadian code I was looking at was the criminal code - there might be a difference between civil and criminal libel here.