The company that owns Facebook argued in a Moncton courtroom Tuesday that it should be removed from a lawsuit brought by a former Campbellton doctor.

Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is suing Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook. He claims the company had a hand in events that led him to leave his practice in New Brunswick five years ago.

"The entire thing should be struck out," Miranda Spence, who represents Meta Platforms, told Justice Maya Hamou in Moncton's Court of King's Bench.

In the spring of 2020, Ngola was accused of failing to isolate properly at the height of COVID-19 restrictions. He eventually tested positive for the virus.

News conference considered a spark

At a news conference, former premier Blaine Higgs publicly blamed a COVID outbreak in northern New Brunswick that claimed

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