Overview

• Provincial Court Judge Mary Kate Harvie found that Kelvin Goertzen’s 2022 order to seek a second opinion on the decision not to charge Peter Nygard amounted to a serious abuse of process.
• Harvie said Goertzen’s actions fell well short of accepted standards for an attorney general and were motivated by partisan considerations.
• The judge declined to grant a judicial stay and ordered that the sexual assault and unlawful confinement charges proceed.
• Nygard has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison in Toronto for separate sexual assault convictions and faces additional charges in Quebec and the United States.
• The Winnipeg case is set to return to court in September for pre-trial motions ahead of a trial later this year.