A Federal Court judge has ruled against Rebel News, backing the elections commissioner’s finding that the lawn signs used to promote a book critical of the Liberals written by the outlet’s publisher, Ezra Levant, during the 2019 federal election amounted to illegal election campaigning.
Rebel News asked Justice Cecily Strickland in September to overturn a decision by the commissioner of Canada Elections that the lawn signs used as part of a “guerrilla marketing campaign” to promote the book, “The Librano$,” constituted illegal election advertising. The signs featured the cover art of the book, The Rebel News logo, and the site “TheLibrano$.com” along with the words “buy the book.”
