It's a great question. As an economist, I would love to have a definition that's internationally comparable, because it would allow someone like me to look across countries and say how Canada ranks up. That would be great.
I think the challenge for aligning with the ILO is that, if I recall correctly, the ILO's definition is purposely quite broad in order to be manageable, I think, but if we go down this road of trying to define it for ourselves, taking into account health and safety, temporary agencies and all of these different circumstances that Canadians might face, we risk that those same conditions might not be present in Germany, or that they might interpret them differently, maybe not as negative or not as positive, whatever.
While it might be great, my concern would be that how we define it for Canadians doesn't translate as well maybe culturally to other countries, so I think that would be the challenge. I will note that even coming up with a harmonized definition of unemployment isn't necessarily that easy on an international basis. While I would love it, I think it would be very difficult.