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Alberta Party candidate Gar Gar was campaigning in Calgary-East when a woman told him she plans to vote for him, and asked for a lawn sign to show her support.

After installing the sign and heading toward his car, he heard someone shouting at him to come back.

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Gar posted the resulting interaction in a video on Twitter on Wednesday, which has since been shared hundreds of times. The video shows the woman’s landlord telling the candidate to take the sign, “or I’m going to kick it apart.”

Gar said he was about to tell the man he needed to get his drill to take the sign down when the man ripped the sign off.

Along with the video, the candidate tweeted: “Destroying a lawn sign right in front of a renter. In #CalgaryEast, where most voters are renting homes, this only continues to isolate and instill fear in our community.”

Alberta’s Election Act states: “No landlord or person acting on a landlord’s behalf may prohibit a tenant from displaying election advertising posters on the premises to which the tenant’s lease relates, and no condominium corporation or any of its agents may prohibit the owner or tenant of a condominium unit from displaying election advertising posters on the premises of his or her unit.”