The school of thinking of a number of people around here is that he's Canadian and he might want to prove that he's not tied to his past.

There's a good mood, ... People know the union, and the company, by the way, have done an excellent job in terms of dealing with what was a very difficult situation.

But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.

That's the only thing that he spoke against at almost every council meeting.

We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.

I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs . . . to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.