There are quite a few articles proposing that Flaherty's budget is proposing to do just that on pages 144 and 145 of the document, using bureaucratic language to cover their tracks. There is part of me that remains skeptical about this because if this is what the Cons are up to, they are playing a very risky game with the support of voters.
"The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself. It is right there in black and white on pages 144 and 145 of “Economic Action Plan 2013″ which the Harper government has already submitted to the House of Commons. ... In addition, it is being reported that the European Parliament will soon be voting on a law which would require that large banks be “bailed in” when they fail. In other words, that new law would make Cyprus-style bank account confiscation the law of the land for the entire EU. ...
if the banks take extreme risks with their money and lose, “certain bank liabilities” (i.e. deposits) will rapidly be converted into “regulatory capital” and the banks will be saved.
In other words, the banks will just be allowed to grab money directly out of your bank accounts to recapitalize themselves.
That may sound completely and utterly insane to us, but this is how things will now be done all over the western world."
http://www.infowars.com/cyprus-style-bail-ins-are-proposed-in-the-new-20...
Here are several other sources saying much the same thing.
http://canadianawareness.org/2013/03/federal-budget-implements-the-finan...
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54142
http://silverdoctors.com/canada-includes-bail-in-provision-for-systemica...
http://www.munknee.com/2013/03/canada-the-european-union-are-proposing-c...
http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/sd-canada-includes-deposi...