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The second thing the school is not is a school that is expected to be specialized in everything, because when you are expected to be specialized in everything, you end up not being specialized in much. This is a school of public administration. It does not, for instance, provide specialized training, and I'll pick two or three examples. We have an institute dealing with IT training with Public Works and Government Services. That makes sense, because if you're going to be in specialized training, the specialty training should be where there resides the greatest level of expertise. So those people who are creating the IT infrastructure of the Public Service of Canada are at the leading edge, and those at the leading edge should be providing the training related to a specialty. We are not expected to provide military training, for obvious reasons. It's specialty training. The training should rest with those who have the greatest expertise and do it well, and that's the Department of National Defence. The Department of Foreign Affairs has an institute preparing foreign service officers to perform in 42 languages. That is specialty training, it is not public administration. It is a domain, unique in itself, that deserves to be respected as it is.
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