You can't blame Le P, Dick. Those that work for these government departments are brainwashed into thinking that they are doing the right thing. Team meetings, steering committees, continuous improvement sessions, team lunches, the list goes on of the things that give employees a warm and fuzzy feeling to make them feel valuable. It's a hard pill to swallow that think that you're contributing to something that maybe unsafe, inefficient and not for the greater good, so any wonder he's defending the system that employs him.
Not a government department and the last time we had a team meeting was in the early 2000s - we'd discuss things like procedure changes, SAR scenarios and learning from mistakes made.
Thanks for the laugh.