A Manitoba judge is weighing how far Winnipeg city councillors can go when speaking publicly about senior civil servants, as Coun. Russ Wyatt attempts to overturn a reprimand issued against him last year for comments he made about the city’s former chief administrative officer.

Wyatt appeared in Court of King’s Bench on Friday, asking Justice Christian Monnin to quash an integrity commissioner’s finding that he harassed former CAO Michael Jack.

The ruling stemmed from comments Wyatt made to CBC News in 2023, when he said he would bring a motion to fire Jack if the city did not dismiss a planner named in the Parker Lands lawsuit, a case that led to a judge ordering the city to pay developer Andrew Marquess $5 million.

A Manitoba appeal court judge overturned that decision earlier

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