Come on, raise your hand. There are not many Liberals and there is no one on our side.
Mr. Speaker, do you have ten bills of $1,000 in your pockets? No?
In Canada, $1,000 bank notes are used almost exclusively for transfers, for buying land, or by organized crime members. Not many people walk around with $1,000 bank notes in their pockets. I think that bills of $100, $50 and $20 adequately meet the needs of Canadians, particularly since we make extensive use of credit cards. There is no need to carry large amounts of money in our pockets.
Why not, then, go along with what the Bloc Quebecois requested during the election campaign and on a few occasions since 1997 and take one thousand dollar bills out of circulation? It is very simple.
I have a friend who is a lawyer, a judge now, whom I will not name for fear of making his life difficult—