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Edmonton-Griesbach Conservative MP Kerry Diotte is suing the University of Alberta student newspaper over a pair of articles that he claims have defamed him.

On Nov. 19, Diotte filed a statement of claim against The Gateway Student Journalism Society, which publishes the U of A’s student newspaper.

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Diotte takes issue with a pair of articles published on the newspaper’s website earlier this month.

“The plaintiff, Kerry Diotte, asserts that he is not a racist and that (the articles) stand to defame his character,” the statement of claim says.

Statements of claim contain allegations not proven in court.

The first article, under the headline “SU president criticized for photo with controversial MP,” was published Nov. 2 on The Gateway’s website.

The article was written after U of A Students’ Union president Reed Larsen tweeted a photo of himself with Diotte at a Universities Canada event in October.