of malice such that the defamatory statements are not protected by the defence of fair comment". On December 15, 2008, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the original $30,000 defamation judgment against Fromm and added a $10,000 penalty in legal costs. Fromm posted a financial appeal complaining, "We are $17,500 behind in our legal bills – to say nothing of the possible $40,000 debt, if this judgment stands". Richard Warman responded to news of the appeal court's ruling by saying it "sends the message that those who try to use the cloak of free speech to poison other people's reputations through lies and defamation do so at their own peril". The Supreme Court of Canada rejected Fromm's application to appeal the judgement on April 23, 2009. Electoral record |- !rowspan="2" colspan="2" |Candidate !colspan="3" |Popular vote !rowspan="2" colspan="2" |Expenditures |- ! Votes ! % ! ±% |- | style="background-color:#66023C;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Fred Eisenberger (Incumbent) | style="text-align:centre;" | 74,093 | style="text-align:centre;" | 54.03% | style="text-align:centre;" | +14.1% | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#1406a8;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Vito Sgro | style="text-align:centre;" | 52,190 | style="text-align:centre;" | 38.06% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#b1e85f;" | | style="text-align:left;" | George Rusich | style="text-align:centre;" | 2,220 | style="text-align:centre;" | 1.62% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#fdff91;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Jim Davis | style="text-align:centre;" | 2,071 | style="text-align:centre;" | 1.51% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#E30022;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Nathalie Xian Yi Yan | style="text-align:centre;" | 1,286 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.94% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#f44262;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Michael Pattison | style="text-align:centre;" | 899 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.66% | style="text-align:centre;" | +0.04 | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#65AFF6;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Paul Fromm | style="text-align:centre;" | 706 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.51% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#efffaf;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Carlos Gomes | style="text-align:centre;" | 521 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.38% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#a3c3f7;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Todd May | style="text-align:centre;" | 500 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.36% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#f44289;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Henry Geissler | style="text-align:centre;" | 494 | style="text-align:centre;" | 0.36% | style="text-align:centre;" | n/a | style="text-align:centre;" | |- | style="background-color:#7ff9b0;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Phil Ryerson | style="text-align:centre;" |