Ontario's Opposition leader says he plans to ignore a libel notice from Premier Kathleen Wynne.
Wynne took another step toward a defamation lawsuit against Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown last week after he refused to retract comments suggesting she is personally on trial.
Wynne's lawyer first demanded in a letter last month that Brown withdraw comments he made a day before the premier testified as a witness at a trial in Sudbury, Ont., involving two provincial
Liberals facing Election Act bribery charges.
Brown had told reporters he hoped Wynne would give answers about the scandal ``maybe when she stands trial'' and went on to describe her as a ``sitting premier, sitting in trial.''
After receiving the original letter from Wynne's lawyer, Brown said he would ``ignore her baseless legal threat,'' and now after receiving the follow-up notice of libel, he says his position is unchanged.
A letter today from Brown's lawyer to Wynne's says his statements weren't defamatory and he will not be ``distracted'' from his duty as Opposition leader.