I don't have a problem with that particular sense. What I'm getting at is that there is a free choice to serve your government in various capacities, and some of those positions, whether they're in Foreign Affairs or the military, may well include serving abroad. It is serving the country, but it is also fundamentally a choice that individuals make.
On this distinction of whether it's in Foreign Affairs or working for an NGO or perhaps for a respected Canadian corporate entity, I'm not sure that within Canada we would allow for special abilities to fast-track or to somehow have different sets of rules based on employment by a crown corporation or by the private sector within Canada, so outside of Canada.... That's why I liked the second suggestion you were talking about, which is this idea of a residency requirement, as opposed to a requirement based on employment with the federal government.