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According to the news release, the matter was resolved without any financial consideration. Boyd was originally asking for an unspecified amount in damages and costs when the statement of claim was filed.

“For me, this was never about the money,” said Boyd in a statement. “This was about defending my reputation.”

The claim referenced two stories written by Leo and published and broadcast by the CBC titled, “Businessmen made millions on Regina land that wound up in taxpayers’ hands” and “Sask. politicians call for review of puzzling land transactions uncovered in iTeam investigation.”

Several land transactions were described, including a land sale between the Ministry of Highways and the GTH. The claim refers to transactions involving individuals and companies whom the stories connected with the Saskatchewan Party and, in one case, Boyd’s election campaign through donations.

Prosecutors in Manitoba are currently reviewing the findings of an RCMP investigation related to the land transactions detailed in Leo’s reporting.

In the lawsuit, Boyd claimed statements made in the stories “have an implied defamatory meaning.

“The clear implication upon a fair reading of the Stories is that the Defendants were suggesting that there was some wrongdoing involved in the transactions,” the claim reads, detailing comments made by various people interviewed.

In April in an unrelated case, Boyd was fined a total of $35,000 after pleading guilty earlier this year to a pair of environmental charges laid in connection with illegal riverbank modifications.

The former MLA for Kindersley was booted from the Sask. Party caucus and subsequently resigned last summer, after a business trip he took to China was found to be in violation of conflict of interest laws.

dfraser@postmedia.com

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