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The Globe and Mail, Tara Perkins, 20February 2008Canada's big banks could all fall into foreign hands if Ottawa doesn't allow domestic mergers before opening the sector up to foreign acquisitions, Bank of Nova Scotia chief executive Rick Waugh warned Wednesday.�If we can go buy a bank in Mexico or Peru and TD or Royal can go down and buy banks in the United States � eventually [banks in those