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The term learning on the job could not be more apt.

"Port Mann in Vanvouver - it's more solid, they have to wait until the ice actually melts - but in terms of that response, safety always has to come first."

Privately, many senior negotiators spoke of their frustration with what some termed the worst COP in a decade.

"If you are out of work when you’re young that can have lifelong consequences in terms of your future job prospects and earning potential."

Their answer to this state of affairs will be the steady, unremitting accretion and employment of power — defined predominantly in military terms — to serve narrowly defined national interests.