Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to thank the members for being here today.
I want to go back and talk a bit about something Mr. Sauchyn said. One of your comments was that if we don't set goals it'll become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would also put a comment back to you to see what you think about it.
If you have an unachievable goal, that too becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in the fact that nobody will make the effort to try to achieve it. I think we're seeing the results of that right now. We set the minus 6% target rate, and everybody knew at the time it was a pie in the sky target. It wasn't a highly consultative process, and it became its own self-fulfilling prophecy. We knew we weren't going to be able to live up to it back in 1997 or 1998, and that's why we're at the position we're at today, talking about this.
I'd like to leave that with you, and perhaps you have further comments on that. You have to set a realistic goal in order to be able to achieve anything. If we don't set goals we're not going to achieve them, but if we set unrealistic goals we're not going to achieve them. Either one is a self-fulfilling prophecy for failure, is it not?