If we had gone into this situation with our fiscal position not under tight control, if we had had the sense that either inflation was high or would go up, and if we had had a private sector that really had not become as oriented to international competition as it has, this would have been one very difficult year.
Si nous avions abordé cette situation sans avoir solidement en main notre position financière, si nous avions eu l'impression que l'inflation était élevée ou allait augmenter, et si notre secteur privé n'était pas aussi axé sur la concurrence internationale qu'il l'est devenu, l'année aurait été très difficile.