22 Quotes by Michael Baker

We are pleased to have achieved our financial objectives for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. We look forward to carrying the strong momentum generated throughout 2005 into our next fiscal year.

We believe that lower-income customers tend to shop late, so we wouldn't be surprised to see a pick-up, and ultimately see a December comp in the middle of the range.

what this is going to do is preserve the very best of what is the historic nature of the Lunenburg waterfront.

Mobile-phone marketing today is where Internet advertising was in 1996 -- it's about to take off. There are already more mobile phones in use worldwide than televisions and computers put together.

If we receive a request under that legislation, then we would handle it in the routine way we would handle any such request, and routinely we have granted the request for an investigation if asked by the appropriate council,

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders,

While we continue to have concerns about the lower-end consumer, we believe a good deal of Dollar General's issues are company-specific.

These laws are applicable anywhere in the province.

The short-term impact is pretty clear and pretty obvious, and it's to be expected. Traffic really dropped off, ... The main effect of Sept. 11 was to exacerbate a trend that was already in place, and that is that consumers were really buying consumables and buying them in discount outlets. How quickly that will turn around? Your guess is as good as mine.