Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, I believe this is the very quick, slippery slope to foreign control of our banking institutions as well as the re-engineered talks of the bank mergers themselves. Even the banks have said that if they were allowed to merge thousands upon thousands of Canadians would lose their jobs and thousands of branches would be closed throughout Canada. I believe, as is the case with most other institutions in this country, that we will eventually lose control of these institutions and they will be moved over to American or foreign control.
I find it astonishing that the Canadian Alliance and the Liberal Party have refused to debate this issue. Usually when they refuse to debate that means they are trying to hide something or trying to slip something through on the Canadian people. I find it disgusting that they will not even engage Canadians on this very important topic.