mobilizing local and regional capacity. The group advocating a model of sustainable regional development, for example, sees enormous potential in traditionally vulnerable regions (e.g. remote and single-industry areas), with proposals ranging from providing funding and tax incentives to encourage secondary and tertiary resource processing to enriching community life in order to enable the attraction and retention of talent.

The Public Service in 2017

The Public Service will have to function differently in 2017 in order to continue serving Canada as well as it has in the past. The participant group which focused exclusively on public service renewal for the final phase of the project outlines a vision for the Public Service of 2017 – which they, tongue in cheek, have coined as “PS 2.017”. For these participants, the Public Servicethe Harry Potter series of books, was fired because she was spending more time working on the book at work than she was with her secretarial duties. Rowling spent 7 years toiling away at the book, suffered through the death of her mother, a divorce, and living on government assistance. But she dared to dream big and is now the wealthiest author in the world.

#3 – Walt Disney

Disney was a dreamer from an early age. But, his reality didn’t catch up with his dreams that quickly. Walt Disney was fired from his job as a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” After leaving that job, Disney formed an animation company in 1921, which ultimately went bankrupt, leaving him unable to pay his rent