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Retail banking is entrenched with Canadian banks.
The Canadian banks have been quite disciplined in terms of the loans that they ve given to people over the last five years. I think the loan losses on the personal side will increase, but not to any significant level. Also the Canadian economy is stronger than the United States, albeit weakening, so the retail business for the banks is fine. Earlier, when you mentioned that the banks are focusing on their product lines, I wanted to ask for your thoughts on outsourcing. In the US, it seems the regional banks in particular want to be able to offer all products, but they don t necessarily want to produce them.