Justifying the need for a coordinating role is always interesting and I think what it does is it.... My first response to you would be that when we're engaged in work about which we are passionate, work that matters....
So if you're in the department of immigration and citizenship and you're involved in combatting human smuggling, you're going to be passionate about that because that really matters. If you're in another department that's working on that, for instance the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, you're interested in the same broad objective, but you have your own way of getting to that and you're caught up in what you're doing. As folks work in line departments across governments, sometimes it can be hard to see the horizontal forest because you're sort of caught up in the trees. Thus the need for coordination.
Mr. Alcock has a fairly small team at the Privy Council Office in terms of his coordinating role. He's gone a lot of the time travelling, talking to key folks in international partner countries. In fact he has his folks out in the field a lot. The substance of the day-to-day work gets done in the line departments—