It's very important to get the people from the departments--the senior people, perhaps at the ADM level--sitting around a table like this and actually talking about it. Then you have to make it very clear that the decision has been made and you're going ahead. But at that point I'm not sure if you want the centre driving the decision and saying that transportation is going to do it this way and natural resources.... I think it's important to get that buy-in.
In Ontario, everybody sat around the table and there was a fair bit of discussion about who was going on it when and how we were going to do it. But at least you had everybody around the table making that decision. That's where you need a very strong person, and not a person who pounds the table. You need a collegial person who can pick up the phone after the meeting and say, “You know what, Bob? How are we going to work on this together? What can you do to help me out?” That was the sort of person they put in place in Ontario who essentially got the job done.
I also think it's very important, when you're deciding who should go on the advisory committee, to get some people from other jurisdictions who have been through this and have the battle scars on their backs.