In the Toronto Star, Greg Quill quotes Dr. John as saying:

“I’ll be very blunt,” he says. “At the municipal level, the city fathers, the mayor and the local politicians betrayed us. They could have evacuated the city by any means possible, relieved all that suffering that went on for weeks and months. There were Canadian and U.S. ships in the harbour that could have been used to get people out. This was a national emergency.

“At the state level, policy is dictated by oil people whose only interest is the oil rigs in the Gulf. And at the federal level … well, the President lied. He promised things and reneged, gave speeches then said exactly the opposite a few months later. He’s not a man of his word.”