Opening Sequence

The way we organize society is up to us, there is no one right model

Basically, what Canadians want out of life is changing

We want a prosperous society, we want an environmentally healthy society.

I think we're living in such a fast-paced global society now that all of our issues are interrelated and complex.

Canadians want to be major players on the world stage and they want to take control of their own futures, and it's ideas that will help them to do that.

We are in a very exciting moment of change.

The challenge for the public service is to understand the changes and to try to figure out creative ways of responding to those changes.

It is important to me to serve Canadians, particularly as I think of the future, particularly as I think of the evolving face of Canada and it is important to me to create or to be able to contribute to a Public Service where my children will be getting the kind of service that they deserve from this country.

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