It is, at least by all the testimony I've had. I've talked to people who left the public service as deputy ministers and became heads of corporations. The private sector is much more two-dimensional. In government, you're always dealing with ambiguity, contradictions, and cross-currents.
One of the things I found when I did that study.... I talked to three or four serving federal deputy ministers who had been provincial deputies. They all remarked on how much more complicated Ottawa was, and most particularly, they said, the role of the central agencies. In a province, the central agencies are small. They don't have anything like the power the Treasury Board and the Department of Finance and most particularly the Privy Council have in Ottawa. That's just the way successive governments and successive prime ministers have chosen to function in government.