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24 WHENit comes to the desired qualities for the Canadian Seed Growers Association executive director Glyn Chancey has the right stuff. From an early age Chancey ate slept and breathed farming. There was an Ag-Canada research station in Newfoundland and my father was the director Chancey says. Given the culture whenever there was a visitor from Ottawa they would always end up at home at the kitchen table. Our house was steeped in agricultural policy discussions and research from the time I could speak. However it wasnt until he picked up an economics book while studying biology at Mount Allison University that Chancey discovered his true vocation. The next thing you know Im in an economics course he says. My whole world vision shifted and I discovered this new calling in economics while at the same time coming to terms with the fact that I was interested in what my father was interested in. After earning his bachelors degree from the University of Guelph Chancey accepted a position as vice-president and manager for Les Entreprises Payagistes du Quebec. Five years later he returned to academia to pursue a mas- ters degree in industrial organization and international eco- nomics at McGill University. While researching his thesis Chancey was offered a job with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada AAFC the beginning of a 30-year career in federal public service. During that time Chancey held executive positions with a number of government departments and agencies including the Market and Industry Services branch of AAFC the Plant Health and Biosecurity Directorate of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency CFIA the Red Tape Reduction Commission Secretariat at the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council Secretariat at the Privy Council Office. A Strong Start Early in his career Chancey provided technical support and outreach on many trade negotiations and agreements as well as implementation including the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization Agreement. Work in that space and with his CFIA colleagues provided Chancey with an understanding of the technical barriers to trade and the trade policy environment. However it was his role as CFIAs director of the Plant Production Division that fostered his strong relationship with Canadas seed industry. To that role Chancey brought a slightly different philosophy which fit CFIAs desire to make the seed program more industry driven than others. Coming from an economics business and science back- ground I was of the view that markets are theoretically supposed to be self-regulating and that regulation is really something you reserve for market failure or for preventing market failure Chancey says. When he arrived on the seed sector scene in 2002 the variety registration review had been in progress for about six years and had become a contentious issue. Chancey was immediately asked for his perspective. To this task he applied an outside-in approach to government by knocking on doors of industry and other organizations from coast to coast to understand the different viewpoints. THE RIGHT STUFF CSGAs new executive director understands agricultural policy inside out while taking an outside-in approach to government.