Meghan Murphy has gone on record saying that JY's speech constituted defamation, namely before the Township of Langley on 12/10:
For example, in the news recently, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist named Meghan Murphy violated the Canadian Criminal Code by inciting hate against the LGBTQ and trans community, stating, "Men are not women and trans women are not women." In doing this... inciting this speech, I personally got her twitter account suspended, which got a lot of (pause) attention,ah, haha, and created global outcry for feminist rights and created global policy changes for social networks such as twitter and wordpress, um, and such.
However, Meghan Murphy, a Vancouver resident, still has not been prosecuted by VPD for her hate crimes. In the meantime, she has booked a hate rally at the VPL geared toward hate and transphobia. Even Mayor Stewart called her even despicable, yet the event still goes on because the City of Vancouver is too scared to cancel her event.
Murphy has stated that this speech constitutes defamation, which I assume is a civil tort in Canada. Stating that "men are not women and transwomen are not women" is not a
criminal violation, if it were, she would not be allowed to hold her event. Murphy has been careful with her language on JY, merely pointing out what's in the screenshots with qualifiers. To me, it sounds like Murphy, not Yaniv, has the better case for defamation. As
@Cato is more familiar with Canadian law and how it works, however, I'll defer to whatever opinion he has on this.