'This is a sad day for our country': Premier Brad Wall slams Montreal Mayor

This morning, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre shot back at SaskatchewanPremier Brad Wall's recent, pointedremarks.

In apublic message, Coderre reminded Wall that Montreal and the Montreal Metropolitan Community hold a much larger population than that of the entire province of Saskatchewan.

Coderre'scalculatedstatement serves asablatant retort to Wall's recent, critical comments on social media.

After news emerged on Thursday that mayors from the entire Montreal area officially opposed the Energy East pipeline project, Premier Wall wrote acondemnatory statement on his publicFacebook page.

"This is a sad day for our country," began Wall's post.

"Is it too much to expect that these Quebec municipal leaders would respond to this reality with generous support for a pipeline that supports the very sector that has supported them?" begs the last line of Wall's comment.

Premier Wall wants the federal government to consider returning a portion of the money it is taking from so-called "have"provinces while energy prices are low.