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From the Executive Summary: Business-government relations in Canada are marked by a high level of conflict... The two sectors are perceived as inhabited by individuals with quite different skills and experience. This diagnosis had led to the prescription of an exchange of personnel between the sectors with the object of developiung a cadre of executives in both sectors with experience of and understanding of the other sector... The Conference Board of Canada studied 90 alumni of such an exchange, the Executive Interchange Program (EIP). This research documents how their perceptions of the sector that hosted them during the exchange changed.