For years, Jeff McCarthy said he's been walking Montreal streets with a traditional Scottish knife stuffed in his sock off and on.
But on Wednesday, while going to play the bagpipes at the McGill University fall convocation at Place-des-arts, he was stopped by police and fined, saying he was carrying a concealed weapon.
McCarthy, who said he might contest the ticket, told the CBC he was shocked, adding he wasn't waving the knife is a violent manner.
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Ban on Sikh kirpan (knife) overturned by Supreme Court
A Quebec school board was wrong to tell a 12-year-old Sikh boy he could not wear his ceremonial dagger in the classroom, as his faith requires, Canada's top court ruled unanimously Thursday.
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