This should be an indication of the seriousness of the situation. This is not a typical thing for industry to step up and speak to their operations in this fashion. It's a serious situation.

[Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov.

That could be something as simple as a discussion about the seriousness of it and do we or do we not want to do something about it. It's the behavior of a schoolyard bully whose behavior needs to be reined in.

The very survival of New Brunswick?s manufacturing sector is now at risk.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.