Mr. Speaker, last month, Pontiac made headlines across the country. The mayors of the Pontiac regional county municipality had decided to consider a motion proclaiming the territorial integrity of the Pontiac RCM, should the yes side win the next referendum.
In the end, on February 16, the Pontiac RCM mayors signed a joint statement asking: "That the Prime Minister of Canada, provincial and territorial premiers spare no effort to reach a compromise eliminating the option that would result in altered territorial borders".
The next day, a local paper ran an article under the headline "Sixteen Pontiac Mayors in Favour of Secession". This catchy title in no way reflected the content of the Pontiac mayors' final statement, and I question the real purpose of such statements.