We have a mix of employees whom we've seconded from the government departments, who are policy and regulatory specialists. We also have employees who are seconded from business and are specialists in things like pipelines and trains. Transparently, we have three layers in the MPO: old people, middle-aged people and young people. We endeavour to have all three layers of those people working together on various projects so that we can build Canada. We work here because we all share one thing: we are very purposeful about wanting to take our time to build Canada.
Anybody's kid who gets a chance to work in the Major Projects Office, even for six months or a year, benefits by seeing how Canada works. They benefit by seeing what it looks like in government to be a public servant and what the issues are that you have to address. The public servants are seeing what it looks like to do the financial analysis, the technical analysis, all the analysis required to make sure that a project is financially viable, that it should be done and that it will create cash flow for 50 years.
It's a unique experience for employees. Employees are highly ethical, and they would not, in any way, ever want to embarrass this country. They wouldn't ever want to do something they thought was unethical, because we all came here for one thing: to build Canada.
