Thank you.
I'm a little bit concerned. Basically, these clichés, like confidence is the essence of all success, attitude is everything, etc.... I'm a little bit concerned about having a self-fulfilling prophecy with the possibility of doom and gloom. I have an interesting quote here from a few years back. This happened to be back in 1985. It states, “Nervous consumers don't make for a strong economic recovery. The solution, we believe, is for the federal government to avoid any panic rhetoric.” It goes on, “Alarmist statements about the federal deficit may be useful for the purposes of frightening the public.” It goes on, of course.
It's not that I want to age someone, but the individual who happened to make those statements, of course, was the current Liberal finance minister, Mr. McCallum.