There are linked SkyTrain stations and bus stations and bus routes that integrate through Port Moody and Burquitlam. So there is an existing transportation corridor. With North Vancouver—North Burnaby, you have to leave the riding for that one link, and there's a bridge that is sometimes closed because of accidents. As to the transit links, you have to go to downtown Vancouver and then come back, if you're going to hope to have any real connection between the two halves of this proposed riding.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.