FORMER Surrey Councillor Jack Hundial, a former RCMP officer, has “unreservedly” apologized to Vancouver builder Bob Cheema for making “false” statements against him, beginning in September 2019.

He admitted that those statements “represent a grave slur on his personal and professional integrity and have caused him and his family considerable distress and embarrassment.”

Hundial also agreed to pay Cheema “a substantial sum by way of damages and in settlement of his legal costs.”

Here is Hundial’s apology to Cheema:

“Beginning in September of 2019, I made several statements about Bob Cheema that were false. As such, my statements represent a grave slur on his personal and professional integrity and have caused him and his family considerable distress and embarrassment.

“I now accept my error in publishing the statements and recognize the considerable damage they have done to Mr. Cheema.

“I unreservedly apologize to Mr. Cheema, and I fully withdraw and retract, without reservations, the prior statements I published about him. I have also agreed to pay Mr. Cheema a substantial sum by way of damages and in settlement of his legal costs.”