05-15-2017, 02:25 PM
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Knife-in-the-back gesture at City council prompts integrity complaint, seat change
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...aint-1.4115371
Video link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/944066627853/
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A Calgary city councillor's back-stabbing hand gesture in the direction of a female colleague has prompted her to change seats and a fellow councillor to file a complaint to the integrity commissioner.
Coun. Ward Sutherland made the gesture during a public hearing last week, extending his arm and appearing to repeatedly make a knife-twisting motion with his hand toward Coun. Druh Farrell as she was speaking, her back turned to him.
Sutherland then appears to mimic the reaction of someone who is in pain.
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He later denied the gesture was directed at Farrell, saying it was actually meant as a message to another colleague, Coun. Andre Chabot.
Chabot — who sits in that same direction and is out frame in the camera angle of council's in-house video broadcast — agreed with that assessment.
In a tweet, Chabot said the gesture was meant to express "that one of our colleagues had just stabbed me in the back."
He has declined to explain exactly what that means, describing it as a private matter.
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