Canada's Position:
In Canada, there have not been any landmark cases that would determine the policy with which the Canadian government will treat Cyberlibel. The existing libel codes hold that the defendant using a defense of innocent dissemination will succeed if the defendant demonstrates:
- The defendant does not know of the libel contained in the work authored or published by him or her.
- There was no reason for the defendant to suppose that the work he or she authored or published would be libelous.
- It was not negligence on the defendant's part that he or she did not know that the work contained libelous material.