That was tough for people who had a sense that when you're with Ontario Hydro, you're there forever. But no, for every single job, people had to compete for their own position. Some succeeded, some didn't. And that's tough, but it was necessary. It made the point that from now on, we're performance oriented.
Performance is what counts.
Whoever owns this corporation, I'm determined that it become a business. It must run on business-like principles and that's what people are now doing and they are adapting quite well to it. The restructuring consolidates Hydro's primary operations and activities into three major components - the Electricity Group, Energy Services and the Environment, and a Hydro Enterprises group. Each will have a high degree of operating and administrative autonomy and will be responsible, and accountable, to meet bottom-line returns and performance requirements. The objective is to move responsibility and accountability down into the organization to the levels at which they are closest to the customer and can be most effective.