Mr. Speaker, the finance minister is coming across looking pretty defensive these days. First he is caught off guard by the monster merger announcement. Then he tells us his hands are tied by the task force. Then today he accuses the NDP of being the bankers' friends.
But in fact in 1996 the Liberals took $140,000 from the Bank of Montreal and $110,000 from the Royal Bank.
Is that not why his hands are tied? How can the Liberals take these monster donations and then expect us to believe that the monster merger is not already a done deal?