When I prepared my brief for the commission, I consulted the three reeves in my riding and none of the reeves, nor the RCM council, wished to oppose the boundaries. Only one small municipality, Pointe-des-Cascades, was against it. Its population of approximately 1,800 is currently in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges. Its opposition wasn't particularly polarized, nor given much media coverage, because it was unrelated to the decisions being made by the RCM reeves.
The fact is that RCM of Haut-Saint-Laurent Is split in two. The municipalities in the new riding of Châteauguay—Les Jardins-de-Napierville are not necessarily disappointed with this split. The only opposition comes from a single anglophone citizen who expressed his dissatisfaction with the new boundary because he felt that the anglophone community, which is concentrated in the RCM of Haut-Saint-Laurent, was now split in two. However, that was really the only objection, and it did not garner much support from others in our consultations.