Community Safety Minister Rick Bartolucci is firing back at the Progressive Conservatives over a flag controversy in Caledonia. Bartolucci says they should be ``ashamed of themselves'' for questioning why flying the Canadian flag near the site of an aboriginal protest is being treated as a criminal act. He says he will always support the actions of the O-P-P as should all elected politicians. Bartolucci was responding to Halton Conservative Ted Chudleigh, who demanded to know whether flying the Canadian flag in Caledonia was considered a criminal act. Chudleigh says in 2006 a man was arrested for carrying the Canadian flag in Caledonia while someone carrying a Mohawk warrior flag ``got a police escort.'' Bartolucci fired back, saying he would ``never interfere in operational matters.''