Throughout the years, College Sainte-Anne had to face many difficulties. At the time of the institution`'s 75th anniversary in May 1965, things seemed to be moving towards a climax. Again, it was the financial problem that was the greatest concern. The buildings were in poor shape and in need of renovations, student enrolment was very low, and academically, the curriculum needed an overhaul. Yet, this was not possible without adequate funding. From 1965 to 1969, a series of studies were initiated to try and remedy the situation. The solutions proposed by the Garneau Report became very controversial. Contained in this reoprt were the following recommendations: the affiliation with Université de Moncton, the restructuring of the academic programs, and the relocation of the institution to Yarmouth and its transformation into a Junior College. In a letter to the Grants Committee of Nova Scotia in 1966, Garneau justified his reasons for moving Sainte-Anne to Yarmouth:

a) It would establish the College in the geographical centre of the whole area it can be expected to serve.
b) It could operate more economically, mostly as a day school, thus enabling the French-speaking Acadians to commute as easily from Pubnico as from Meteghan.
c) It would also provide both the French and English-speaking students from Yarmouth and the vicinity with post-secondary educational facilities closer to home.

Understandably, these recommendations did not please the Acadians of Church Point and the surrounding area. A sociology professor from Université Laval, Marc-Adélard Tremblay, had spent the last fifteen years studying the Acadians of Baie Sainte-Marie and he had prepared a memoir concerning the College problem in March of 1966. According to Tremblay, Yarmouth as a choice for the new site would harm the Acadians’ cultural identity and would most likely assimilate them. He therefore rejected Garneau’s recommendations as he believed they would create a kind of genocide. As Tremblay mentioned in a briefing on Sainte-Anne’s future, " Le Collège est le symbole d’une présence française au sud-ouest; sa disparition entraînerait des sentiments d’une nouvelle déportation pour les Acadiens", this was the beginning of a problem that erupted into the crisis of 1971 and the eventual abandonment of the College by the Eudist Fathers.