Thank you, Chair. This is discussing the amendment, which ties back to the motion, which ties back to Mr. Coderre's comments.
The first thing is that when I last spoke, I was not lecturing on morality. I was simply saying that we as a committee should hear information. We should ask witnesses to come and explain what is going on and give the committee the opportunity to better understand the issues. I don't see why Mr. Coderre would be on the defensive about that and feel that I was lecturing him. I was simply stating that we have an opportunity here to discuss an important issue and we should discuss it. We should hear what the facts of the case are.
The second thing I want to point out is the lack of logic regarding Mr. Coderre's comments, because the first comments he made were that we should in fact respect the areas of responsibility, the mandates of other levels of government. He then moved into attacking me for not interfering in other levels of government. So on the one hand he's saying, “Respect levels of government and respect their mandates”, and he then attacks me because I am respecting their mandates and their champs de compétence. Then he finishes off by saying we should be respecting the mandates and the champs de compétence of these other levels of government. So there's a real lack of logic in Mr. Coderre's thinking.
Regarding the Russell bylaw, we're talking about a municipal bylaw here.