Madam Speaker, do I take it from what the hon. member for Kings—Hants said that he is in favour of bank mergers and against airline mergers?
The best advice we have is that any change in the 10% rule will not abrogate any of our NAFTA commitments. The Alberta legislature did away with the 10% rule on Canadian Airlines last year because of course the parent was PWA, a creature of the Alberta legislature.
The Competition Bureau will indeed very much be at play in whatever happens. It will be looking at the merger in the normal way.
I remind the hon. member that the government was faced with three scenarios in July: a bailout of Canadian Airlines; a potential failure of Canadian Airlines; or finding some other way, imperfect as it may be, to find a proper solution.