I recently met with residents from the city of Richmond, with members of the Richmond council as well as with the leadership within the city. They expressed frustration with the federal government, and with the province too, to be honest with you. Communication, they say, is very limited when they try to get information and try to get an idea of where the federal government wants to go with this. There seems to be no dialogue coming from not only the feds but also the province. It's getting better with the province now that they've stepped in to backstop those trying to renew mortgages in the city limits in the affected areas.
However, the claim is still that the federal government has been lax in their dialogue with the people being impacted, and that has left it all up to the city to provide this leadership or the interaction with constituents, who have a number of concerns with this. They just feel alone.
