John Ferguson continues testimony at defamation trial

Former Saint John councillor John Ferguson, who is being sued for defamation by the city's pension board,is continuing his testimony on Friday.

The pension board is suing Ferguson for allegedly defamatory comments he made starting in 2005 about the board's handling of the pension fund, which had a $47-million deficit at the time.The deficithas since jumped to more than $190 million.

Ferguson told the court on Thursday that he wrongly claimed a senior lawyer had told him about evidence of negligence at the city's pension board.

But he defended that statement saying the issue is minor because he believes there actually was gross negligence at the pension board.

CBC reporter Robert Jones is covering the defamation trial.

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