And so, after I joined the cabinet, I asked each ministry to send me a secondment. And they don’t have to work in my office. They can still work in their own ministry. But they have to shift their mindset to have engagement as their main job, right? So we have a system of engagement, or as we call it, participation officer network. And every month, they vote on what topic to have a deliberative conversation with the citizens. So that went on for six years.

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