A former United Conservative Party candidate who resigned after controversial messages she sent came to light has won a permanent restraining order against the man who distributed those messages to the media.
“Ultimately, I am satisfied on the evidence that [Karim] Jivraj embarked on a campaign to cause emotional and financial harm to [Caylan] Ford by damaging her reputation,” according to a February 2023 memorandum of decision, written by Justice Robert A. Graesser.
Ford stepped down as a candidate the month before the April 2019 Alberta provincial election after excerpts of her private Facebook messages were made public.
Those messages led Ford to
