The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Prime Minister Mark Carney expects senior public servants to speedily carry out his ambitious nation-building agenda and is prepared to discipline anyone unable to meet his expectations. The Globe's Robert Fife writes that to meet his stated goal of achieving "the largest transformation" in the Canadian economy since the Second World War, sources say, Mr. Carney is also ready to recruit more outsiders like former Hydro-Quebec chief executive officer Michael Sabia. Mr. Sabia, who once headed BCE and Quebec's pension fund, will become Clerk of the Privy Council Office in early July. The PCO Clerk is the country's top bureaucrat and the Prime Minister's deputy minister. The Prime Minister plans to rapidly fulfill his promises to diversify trade away from the United States and turn Canada into an energy superpower. Discussions have been held with Mr. Sabia and incoming PMO chief of staff Marc-Andre Blanchard about demoting or dismissing senior civil servants who fail to meet the performance goals. Mr. Blanchard, a former UN ambassador, was until recently executive vice-president of Quebec's pension fund and before that was chairman of law firm McCarthy Tetrault.