Toronto MP Kevin Vuong has settled a lawsuit filed by designer and entrepreneur Anna-Maria Mountfort, who claimed Vuong and his business partner cut her out of their pandemic mask-making business, TakeCare Supply. Toronto MP Kevin Vuong has settled a $1.5 million lawsuit filed by a former associate.
Designer and entrepreneur Anna-Maria Mountfort claimed Vuong and his business partner Larry Lau unfairly cut her out of their lucrative pandemic mask-making business, TakeCare Supply. Mountfort launched the civil suit in late 2020, after she said she had come up with the name and design for the firm's signature mask earlier that year. According to her statement of claim filed in Toronto Superior Court, she was eventually pushed out and paid too little, in breach of an agreement with the defendants.Vuong, the Independent MP for the downtown Spadina–Fort York riding, told CBC News in a brief email on Tuesday "the settlement terms are confidential.
Vuong, a naval reservist, ran in the 2021 federal election as a Liberal but was disavowed by the party just days before the vote. The Liberals said Vuong had failed to disclose a 2019 sexual assault charge, which was first reported by theBallots in the 2021 election still listed Vuong as the Liberal candidate for Spadina–Fort York.
Thomas is a CBC News reporter based in Toronto. In recent years, he has covered some of the biggest stories in the world, from the 2015 Paris attacks to the Tokyo Olympics and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. He's reported from the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa and the Pope's visit to Canada aimed at reconciliation with Indigenous people. Thomas can be reached at thomas.daigle@cbc.ca.