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Looking along the opposition benches during question period Thursday — from Conservatives to NDP, and back from NDP to Conservatives — it became impossible to tell one from the other.

Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose blasted the Liberal Infrastructure Bank plan for giving “billions of dollars to billionaire bankers.”

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“Put the brakes on this terrible idea,” she said.

Matthew Dubé for the NDP claimed the Liberals were rushing to introduce the “privatization bank” in order to please their “Bay Street friends.”

While it is typical for the NDP to oppose private enterprise, it is unsettling to hear the leader of the Conservative Party disown the concept.

Ambrose quoted selectively from an internal federal report produced by KPMG, first reported by the Globe and Mail, that suggested the new bank could slow down projects with new layers of bureaucracy and expose Ottawa to “public relations disasters and embarrassment.”