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In 1998, four of Canada's biggest banks proposed to merge. The deals would
have meant the loss of thousands of Canadian jobs and the closure of
hundreds of local branches across the country. The Council of Canadians
launched a well-publicized cross-country campaign to convince federal
Finance Minister Paul Martin to reject the proposed mergers and bring
greater accountability to the banking industry. The Finance Minister ruled
against the mergers on December 14, 1998.

We owe the Council of Canadians our gratitude.

John Corman wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:57:15 GMT, David <davidj@home.com> wrote:
>
> >John Corman wrote:
> >
> >> But Lars, knowing the intellect of those who would actually listen to
> >> this screwball, they wouldn't know what year it was anyway.
> >
> >John Corman is a leading intellectual because he knows what year it is.
> =====================================================
> My goodness.  A scathing attack from what appears to be an unarmed
> warrior.
> Do you actually want to debate the intellect of Maude and her
> followers David, or is this just a little gorilla warfare.  Hit and
> run, so to speak?
> If you do want to discuss the sanity of Maude and her followers, why
> don't we start with the "Banking Conspiracy".  That conspiracy,
> according to Maude and her ilk, had it that in the early nineties, the
> banks, in conspiracy with the Conservatives, maintained high interest
> rates as a pay back for their political support.  Funny though, how
> low interest rates in the mid to later part of the nineties resulted
> in the biggest earnings in the banks' history.
>
> The next Maude conspiracy has it that the banks don't pay income
> taxes.  But that's probably a little too much for you to absorb all at
> once so we'll just leave that for the time being.
>
> John Corman ****** @server home.com