VIDEO: Langley City Councillor drops F-bomb during meeting<\/p>\n
Published 3:17 pm Tuesday, July 28, 2026<\/p>\n
A Langley City Councillor who dropped an F-bomb while another councillor was speaking during a public meeting on Monday has issued an apology.<\/p>\n
Paul Albrecht, who was recorded on video saying \u201cyou\u2019re a f____\u201d while Delaney Mack was speaking, released a written statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the July 27, 2026, City Council meeting, in a moment of extreme frustration, I made a disrespectful comment that I should never have made,\u201d Albrecht said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI regret saying these words. I apologize to Councillor Mack, all of Council, those in attendance at the meeting and the community as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mack told the Langley Advance Times the comment came during a debate over what she described as a \u201cvery costly multi-use pathway and bike lane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not talking about any member of council, I was literally just speaking for the voters and explaining my rationale for my vote, and while I was in the midst of talking, he jumped in and said effing, and then I stopped talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was quite frankly taken aback and also very frustrated and hurt,\u201d said Mack.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Albrecht was attending the meeting via remote video link.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think at that moment he realized that he was not on mute,\u201d Mack said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Nathan Pachal interjected, telling Albrecht the remark was \u201ccompletely out of line\u201d then asked Mack \u201care you okay to continue?\u201d<\/p>\n
She said yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the first time that I\u2019ve been treated poorly, it\u2019s not the second time, it\u2019s not the third, fourth, fifth, or fifteenth time that I\u2019ve been treated poorly by these people,\u201d commented Mack. \u201cIt\u2019s just that it\u2019s happened in the public now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mack has made Code of Conduct complaints against Albrecht and Coun. Rosemary Wallace, neither of which were upheld. <\/p>\n