Mr. Chairman, attitude counts for a lot. I try to foster the attitude that it's normal to have a family and to look after your family as well as giving a high level of professional service to the Government of Canada. We try to be understanding of families' needs. I certainly try not to schedule meetings at all hours. I don't expect employees to work on weekends. Now, some of them may have to, exceptionally, if there's a big deadline, and it's usually the managers. There was a lot of discussion about the use of BlackBerrys, and so on. I don't phone them at home to find out what they think about something for the next day; that's their family time. This is a very important value to me, so I try to make sure those values are respected throughout the office.
On April 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.