Thank you very much.
I'm going to ask you to return to the example of Germany because you made a really interesting point about the fact that, in Germany, there's no differential tuition. Tuition is the same for German citizens and for international students.
I think so many of the challenges that we're now seeing play out, which are faced by colleges, particularly, and by universities, have to do with the fact that provincial funding has declined, as we heard in the previous testimony. I'm not sure if you were watching that, but at one time, it represented 80% of the funding that universities and colleges were relying on, and it is now around 20%.
Can you speak to the German model, for example, and how that can maybe serve as an example for Canada? If we don't address some very fundamental structural issues.... There are issues, of course, at the federal level that do need to be looked at and that will be looked at, but there are provincial responsibilities here that need to be adhered to. I think restoring funding on a level that is meaningful and serious will go a long way in addressing a lot of the challenges that we're seeing materialize.
