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It was a few things together.

I did not want to go over my three-year limit that I had set for myself at the beginning. Either the government could move me to another job, or I would just find my own job. I do not think that governments are used to people taking their future in their own hands and asking to be moved or to leave on their own timing. I got questions and comments back from people like, “You cannot leave, what are you doing?”

We had done so much change in three years, it was going to be more operational now. I was not interested in that. So, even if nobody wanted to move to another portfolio and thought I was doing a good job, I was ready to move on. Elections were coming, too. Scott and Yaprak had left, new people were coming in. Even if they were great, it was not the same relationship anymore that we had had with the minister or the secretary before.

It was also a time for me for reasons of health and family. My then wife was working in tech and some doors were closed to her because of who I was and where I worked. So, I had to put myself and my family first. I find that people who have not worked inside the machine and have scars to prove it do not understand the level of stress and damage that it does to your body and to everything else.