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And everyone who has ever had any dealings with Burney, either in his present role or when he was a senior mandarin at External Affairs, has only superlatives to relate. “He's a dear, which I came to appreciate in my time in government, he's a very hard worker, very con scientious, very bright, he’s just my kind of folks.” The person saying that is Bill Fox, Mulroney's former press secretary. Fox was not Burney’s kind of folks at the PMO, which-is what-everyone in town calls the prime minister's office. MANY WERE OUT Burney’s move from External to the PMO last spring coincided with an exodus of staff. People like Fox, who liked things casual, were out. There was more discipline, more structure and a hope that political dividends would follow. The Con servative government, under the weight of scandals and a seeming aimlessness, appeared to be heading for certain electoral defeat. The Tories now appear to be returning to political respectability and some of the credit is going to the diplomat from Thunder Bay, Ont. The government's most visible achievement in the last year was the free-trade deal with the United States, and there Burney played his hand in an uncustomary way — in public. After Canadian trade negotiator Simon Reisman broke off the talks in late September, Mulroney dis patched Burney and Finance Minister Michael Wilson to Washington to see what there was to save. WORK PRAISED “In the end, he was the spokesman for the political team,” says Allan Gotlieb, Canada’s ambassador in Washington. “There was a massive agenda and many unresolved issues and his demonstrated qualities of forcefulness, directness and organization were all para. mount. “It was a very, very fine pe-formance — his finest hour.” The trade talks were a natural fit for Burney, who had been the assistant deputy minister at External responsible for Canada-U.S. affairs. Before that, he had headed the trade and economic relations bureau. But with the exception of the trade talks, Burney has tried to keep his head down. Partly that’s because Burney wants to keep his options open. He is still a public servant, on loan to the most political operation in Ottawa. A return to the mandarinate will be easier if he is not instantly associated with his present boss. His office on the second floor of the Langevin Block, a sandstone hulk across the street from the Parliament Buildings, is cramped and cluttered — a place where work is done, not where power is displayed. NOT POLITICIAN As a bureaucrat, his knowledge of politics is limited, although he toyed with Conservative politics on the Queen's campus in Kingston, Ont., where he gained a master's degree in political science. What political fixing there is to do generally gets delegated to staff with party credential That isn't to say Burney has tried to keep himself out of political decisions. “The moment you step into the prime minister's office and participate in the kind of role he's into, you become more politicized,” says Ottawa consultant Bill Neville, a Tory with élose relations to Mulroney. “I think Derek understands that and hasn't tried to maintain any kind of lily white or virginal attitude toward the political side of things.” What Mulroney sought when he was pushed to clean up his office was someone who could run the PMO so he could concentrate on the major issues, without being dis: tracted by everything that comes along. Gotlieb, who was Burney’s boss at External, says his protege is not the traditional striped-pants diplomat. “Derek's got the force of a tank,” he says. “He makes a judgment and he acts on,it with dispatch. He doesn't dither.” IMPROVES PMO Neville says the improvements Burney has made in the PMO have come chiefly in two areas. “One was simply the management of the office and through that the guidance of what is, in the end, the prime minister's most valuable asset — his time.” The other, Neville says, drew on Burney’s knowledge of how Ottawa works develop a more reasoned and disciplined approach to interventions by the PMO in the affairs of government. In the old days, the PMO was too often capricious when it got involved with other government depart- ments. Sometimes it would jump in when it shouldn't, sometimes it wouldn't when it should. Sometimes it was too hard, sometimes too gentle. “There was a kind of unpredictability and sometimes a lack of reliability in the PMO’s intervention,” Neville says. That not only was inefficient, but left bureaucrats wondering what was going to happen next, and that had “an unsettling effect on the government as a whole.” Unlike many who moved into the PMO when Mulropey became prime minister, Burney is not a crony Hetont lo Ques’. not St. Francix Xavier and Laval. He was an Ottawa bureaucrat, not a Montreal lawyer. He caught the prime ministerial eye when he organized the shamrock summit between Mulroney and Ronald Reagan in 1985. One of Burney’s first postings as a young foreign affairs officer was Tokyo, where he stayed for seven years. In 1978, he became Canada's ambassador to South Korea. Following the shamrock summit in Quebec City, Mulroney put him to work preparing for the prime minister's 1986 visit to Japan, China and South Korea. Burney was the official spokesman on the trip, often - quoted, but hever named.