At our meeting on Nov.28, Council voted to rename Cornwallis Street to Queen Street. After listening to many comments from residents over the last few days, I felt I should give folks an update.

All of us on Council have been hearing what people have been saying about the street renaming. We hear you.

We are currently discussing possible alternate options on which we can all agree. We are working on this as a group. This is not an issue to be used as a political platform. It is much bigger than that.

If people had been this passionate almost a year ago when Queen Street was included as an option on the survey, we probably wouldn't be discussing this right now.

Calling Councillors, staff or residents of our lovely community racist because of this is just not fair or accurate.

Please give us time to figure this out and hopefully, we can bring something to the table at the December 12 Council meeting.