If the withdrawal of only seven out of seventy-nine parishes puts them in the red, one of three things:
- Those seven are by far the wealthiest and were subsidizing the rest (unlikely).
- The there's something fishy about the diocese finances.
- The story is a ploy to get them back in the "fold".
I'm not an Anglican (the Canadian equivalent of the Episcopal Church) but I am from the Vancouver area. Most of the parishes named are in relatively affluent areas.