I felt that senior management members were not respected for their opinion and that there was no debate, especially if someone put forward a contrarian opinion.
As a member of the senior management team, if a point was raised that we wished to discuss, things like advancing the change agenda within the RCMP.... It actually happened, and I did speak to the commissioner about it. Members raised the issue that it wasn't moving fast enough, and the commissioner quickly took over the lectern and very passionately admonished everybody in the room, described what the change was, and said “That's it. So from here on in the company line is change is moving fast enough”, to which the rolled shoulders went. I described it as the battered wife syndrome, writ large.