Mr. Speaker, I respect that response by the parliamentary secretary and I understand completely what she is saying. We understand the responsibilities of the various ministers but we are hoping that something can be resolved.
It is fundamentally wrong when the two big banks set up this company called Moneris to basically skirt their own banking bylaws. That is where the problem occurred. It is easy to tell a company to shop around but when it has been doing business with a bank for a series of years and that bank takes one of its financial services and hives it off to another company and breaks the contractual agreement that the company had from the very beginning with the original bank, there is something wrong with this. We have seen this happen in the marketplace in the banking sector more than once.
You know yourself, Mr. Speaker, having been in business and seeing businesses in your own community, that some of these small businesses do not have the luxury of switching banks and shopping around.
What I am asking is that the parliamentary secretary bring this to the attention of the appropriate minister within government. I am prepared to do that as well and we are prepared to do that at committee stage. However I would like to see this situation resolved without going through a lengthy procedure which sometimes small companies have to go through; avoid a court case, if you will, Mr. Speaker. All I am asking is that we call these people before the House and make them accountable.