Mr. Speaker, the member for Ottawa—Vanier is a little confused, but I will straighten things out for him.
The Bloc Quebecois was almost unanimous in saying that it would accept bank mergers as long as there would be guarantees with regard to access to capital, the Community Reinvestment Act and, most importantly, the ability of people to be served at any branch.
That said, the question I want to put to my colleague from Richmond—Arthabaska, an interesting speaker in this Parliament, is the following. Would he agree that, if we did what the United States has done and passed a law on community reinvestment, it would be the best thing to happen to the economically weak?
My colleague, who agrees with me, knows what a law on community reinvestment can do, which is to evaluate the involvement of each bank in its community.