It's really become a political issue -- it's on hold until you get a majority government.

You don't want to have to be worrying during the next election that you've been tagged as someone who put a merger through that caused one of the branches in my small town to leave.

You have a new party in power in Ottawa and there are five priorities that they've announced (which) are much easier to deal with and much less risk than the bank file.

Such a government would have a huge majority in the lower house and should face few difficulties getting the upper house on side, but such a government would be likely to be racked by divisions and would probably find making policy decisions difficult.

A majority government could provide a lot of extra momentum for a currency that's already in favor. We could see a gain of 5 percent fairly quickly.

We won't accept the majority of rigid measures the government insists on.