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Reporter tossed from meeting for T-shirt
GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
In a surreal and perhaps unprecedented move last Monday night, a member of the media was evicted from the council cham- bers at Cornwall city hall. His crime? He was wearing a T-shirt which offended Mayor Bob Kilger. Jamie Gilcig of the news website Cornwall Free News was evicted from the council chambers after refusing to remove his T- shirt which depicted a photo of the mayor on a milk carton with the words “missing”. The mayor, who is responsible for proper decorum in the council chamber, had asked that Gilcig either remove the T-shirt or else leave the chamber. Gilcig refused and threw an invective at the mayor challenging his credibility. At some point, either during or after the exchange, the mayor pressed a panic but- ton at his desk which sends a direct emer- gency signal to the Cornwall Community Police Service next door. As many as seven officers arrived, not knowing what emer- gency they were facing, and sirens of police cars could be heard blaring towards the scene. The police officers cluttered the foyer outside the council chambers as Gilcig pro- tested his removal and demanded to be in- formed what law he had broken or whether he was being charged. At one point, an offi- cer appeared to interact with people inside the mayor’s office while the council meet- ing continued inside.
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A member of the Cornwall Community Police Service explains to Jamie Gilcig of the Cornwall Free News what justification Mayor Bob Kilger used to evict him from a council meeting last Monday, while one of at least six other officers on hand look on in this screen capture of video fromThe Cornwall Free News.
It appears the officer was consulting with either Kilger, CAO Norm Levac, or both of them, who retired to the mayor’s office, ap- parently to determine what legal justifica- tion Kilger had to expel Gilcig. Councillors Glen Grant and Denis Carr took turns chair- ing the meeting in the absence of the mayor. The police officer who initially entered the council chambers to remove Gilcig told him that he was trespassing, a highly unusual ac- cusation because the council chamber is a public place in which media and the public regularly attend to view the action of coun- cil. In the end, after at least 20 minutes, Gilcig
was told the mayor cited a section of the Ontario Municipal Act – an act which also governs proper conduct of councillors and the public during council meetings – which gave him the authority to evict Gilcig from the council chamber for “improper conduct”. Not one member of council stood of in defence of Gilcig or his right to freedom of expression as he was evicted from the public chamber. In a side note, Councillor Syd Gardiner was accused of destroying signs made by pro- testers attending the meeting. The owners of the signs have asked police that Gardiner be charged in connection with that incident. The Journal emailed a request to Kilger Friday morning to further explain his role in the expulsion of Gilcig as well as his role in maintaining decorum and order in the coun- cil chambers. As of press deadline Monday, he still had not replied. “This whole experience has been over- whelming,” wrote Gilcig, in an emailed re- sponse to The Journal requesting his reac- tion to the event. “It shouldn’t be about my T-shirt or the mayor impinging on my Charter Rights and Freedoms using the police as a bully tool during anti-bullying week. It should be about his government being held account- able to what’s been going on during his reign as mayor.”
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