There is more than one reason, and one of them is experience. I have a certain number of years of experience in management. In particular I remember one moment in my career. When I was president of the Canadian Newspaper Association, I had an opportunity to meet many owners. I also met a man by the name of David Radler who was the president under Mr. Black. He was responsible for all the newspapers of Southam Newspapers and Hollinger Inc. During our meeting, he told me about his management strategy. He told me he rarely spent a cent to hire consultants. If any of the newspapers had an editorial problem, he knew that another newspaper had an expert in that field and he could ask that person to explain to the less competent editor how to do the job. If there was a distribution problem, he did the same. He told me that in order to improve the performance of others, there were always people within his team who were equipped better than any consultant he might use and who would cost him an arm and a leg.
That comment struck me at the time and always remained a point of reference for me. I think that we have a good team at Industry Canada. In my opinion, internal help we provide to each other mutually is more effective than recourse to consultants.