I have just one other comment. Another point Deming said is that consistency of purpose was very important too, and that lends itself to the importance of having some tenure with the deputy ministers. The Trudeau notion I think has to be total absolute nonsense. I can't see running something with that mentality. It would be chaos in the public service. Maybe we have to root that out and get back to some stability in how we run things here.
On November 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.