MONTREAL - The Quebec government is demanding an end to the spy scandal crisis at Montreal's city hall.
Municipal Affairs Minister Laurent Lessard says he wants to see measures taken to end the unauthorized snooping of emails.
Lessard says elected officials have the right to confidentiality when it comes to their electronic correspondence.
On Monday, the city reassigned controller Pierre Reid for snooping into the emails of city council chairman Claude Dauphin.
Mayor Gerald Tremblay says Reid was acting on a request from the police.
Lessard says his department didn't authorize the snooping, while Quebec provincial police say they didn't ask anyone to sneak around on their behalf.
Tremblay wants Dauphin to step down pending an investigation into a subsidy given to a company in the Lachine borough where Dauphin is mayor.
