Again, though, if we have to wait for this type of “organic” acceptance to occur before we can reform the way our economy works, we risk missing-out on the positioning phase of this new global economic order. We should consider most carefully if we are to take such a risk.
With regard to labor issues more generally, our country is clearly faced with a crisis of unreasonableness in the expectations which labor has been made to understand it should have vis-àvis what the economy can and should, given competitive realities, afford to labor. This, I think, is one of the largest issues challenging the orderly development of the Bahamians economy.