Thank you.
We can be optimists, we can be pessimists, we can be realists. The one thing that does disturb me—and this is certainly not a slam against our media friends—is that in some cases there appears to be a race to be the bad news bearers. Quite honestly, when you take a look at some of the information per se that is out there, we all know that media coverage certainly does influence consumer confidence. Excessively negative coverage, quite simply, is going to drive down that confidence. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy to some particular extent. I mentioned this the other day.
We all recognize that the numbers are bad. I think there isn't a Canadian or a parliamentarian or an economist who doesn't recognize the straits we're in. But do you feel at some particular point that we're simply ramping up this downside risk without taking into account the positive possibilities and realities that we do have?
I'll leave that open to whoever would like to comment.