Madam Speaker, as I was saying earlier, we in the official opposition can only deplore the many delays surrounding the tabling of the white paper on the review of the Bank Act.
We also deplore the fact that the secretary of state is once again turning over the work he should have done over the past year and a half with respect to the review of the Bank Act to select committees, which will probably work behind closed doors, a habit the government took to in the taxation review process and in the scandal surrounding the transfer by family trusts of two billion dollars to the U.S., tax free.
In conclusion, the official opposition will be extremely vigilant when it comes to this important matter of the review of the Bank Act and, in particular, the federal government's respect of provincial jurisdictions, the effects of such a review on the concentration of the financial market, and the real defence of the interests of consumers in Quebec and in Canada. Quebecers and Canadians must and can count on the official opposition, on the Bloc Quebecois, to defend their real interests.